While terroirs and flavor profiles are differentiating factors between old world wines and their new world counterparts, our overall approach to wine — its production, consumption, and even how we let ...

Decanting has been a method used by professional organizers long before it was made popular on social media. You’ve probably ...

As oenophiles know, red wine often produces sediment as it ages, introducing a bitter flavor and gritty texture to the wine. The process of removing these impurities by carefully pouring the wine from ...

Andrew L. Waterhouse, a professor in the department of viticulture and enology at the University of California at Davis, explains. The decanting of red wines has a long tradition in high quality wine ...

When the sommelier says, "Shall I decant that for you?" many restaurant diners begin to wish they had stayed home. Most people have no clue whether the Chianti they just ordered would be happier in a ...

"Romans used decanting, and the only reason we need to decant now is to remove sediment. Older wines over time, bigger-skin grapes like Bordeaux, have sediment. It releases the esters (specific aromas ...