Aerating red wine

There is a $60 aerator...but what is the problem with simply stirring the wine vigorously? There must be a problem with that if aerators go for $60.

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AndyHancock
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Any large jug will do. A magnum bottle is also ok. Or simply get an extra regular bottle and split the wine between the two, it will aerate.

A $60 decanter will generally look better, so if you want something that looks good, spend the money.

Stirring vigorously is not always a good idea. You may do that with certain low sulfite wines that may develop some CO2, stirring gets rid of it. Or with wines that really need a jolt of oxygen. Some wines, older ones, may need a lighter aeration plus you may want to decant the deposits, so stirring is not recommended.

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Mike Tommasi

For many wines this is OK, but some require extra care... If a wine has a lot of sediment you have to decant it, if it is going through a closed phase it needs to be aerated. Some wines don't express much of their flavours unless you aerate them.

By opening the bottle and letting it "breathe" you are exposing a very small surface area, it may not breathe at all.

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Mike Tommasi

I was given a Vinturi as a gift and have blind tested it a number of times with fairly consistant results......it actually seems to work on young wines. I haven't used it on older wines.

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rvwrlee
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Lawrence Leichtman

Dogs never seem to have a problem drinking from a large shallow dish.

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Bi!!
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Lawrence Leichtman

Bi!! card to enlighten us with:

The don't even need a dish to enjoy wine.

Of all the dogs in my life (and there'vewen wuite a few), only Winston, my first bulldog, loved wine. He didn't drink often, but drink he did, or rather, he would lick up every single drop under the table whenever someone had overturned a glass at the "Heurigen" winery... And if it was funny (well, sort of) to walk home with a slightly drunken bulldog, it was a lot funnier to behold a bulldog with a terrible hangover the day after!

Winston has long gone to wherever bulldogs go when their time's up, and all the following dogs, bulldog or not, didn't care for wine, but rather for beer. My recent Rottweiler, however, seems to be a teetotaller...

Helmut, who just poured himself a nice glass of "Messwein" (Spaetrot a.k.a. Zierfandler) from Freigut Thallern, Gumpoldskirchen

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Helmut P. Einfalt

Not sure that would help my enjoyment of a fine wine however.

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Lawrence Leichtman

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