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decanter

Schott Zwiesel

Frappino Decanter and Cooler

This decanter is presented with a
glass bucket to keep your wines cool and improve their
presentation on a festive table. Perfect for 0.75l bottle.

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decanting wine

Decanting is one the most delicate wine operations. It involves removing a wine from its original bottle to a fresh glass carafe. In fact, decanting can help a wine reveal its best aromas or on the contrary reveal its lacks. There are three main reasons to decant a wine, namely to aerate a wine, separate the wine from its sediments and develop the wine bouquet.


Obviously, it is useless to make a young wine breathe or to separate it from sediments it does not have. But you can decant young wines to accelerate the period of rest they need before being served. Actually, decanting is more useful for old red wines or ports that age in bottles for a long time and accumulate deposits. In any case, it is always important to transfer the wine carefully, and a well-designed decanter filter can help with this process.

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1. Prepare the bottle of wine you want to decant.
2. Pour the wine inside the decanter through a funnel, little by little. The funnel will retain the deposits.

3. Once you see sediments coming inside the decanter thanks to the light, stop
pouring.

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4. You can keep the remaining liquid to cook some French food for example. But it is totally undrinkable.
5. Lastly, let the wine inside the decanter breathe at an ambient temperature for one hour or around before drinking it.

Decanting is particularly recommended for the following wines:

decanting Bordeaux red wines more than 5 years old
decanting Bordeaux Crus classes, crus bourgeois and petits chateaux
decanting Burgundy red wines more than 10 years old
decanting Burgundy red wines Premiers crus
decanting Rhone Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Hermitage and other Northern Rhone more than 5 years old
decanting Italian Barolo, top vina da tavola like Sassicaia
decanting Spanish Vega Sicilia, Top Penedes more than 7 years old and Rioja which tends to have deposits
decanting Portuguese Port
decanting All red wines more than 5 years old
decanting Some white wine needs to decant like the German fine Rhein and Mosel wines over 10 years old and the French Vendanges Tardives
decanting Sparkling wine shouldn't be decanted.
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