Taking some wine to friends house.

Is that the Chilean red with the pepper on the label, if it is that's a wonderful wine.

This will tell you anything you want to know.

I would not decant it until about 1/2 hour before you drink it. Not all red wines need long periods of time to "open up". Since you don't go into detail on what wine you purchased (varietal, vintage, etc.), it would be hard to predict the optimum time between decanting and serving.

Cindy

Unlike years ago, most wines are filtered and sediment free. If you have no sediment or just want it to breath, I'd do it at the recipient's home and pour from the decanter at the table.

If there is sediment, I'd do it the day of the meal. Travelling with the bottle would shake it up too much. .

Chilean wine? The liquor stores here carry a number of inexpensive Chilean wines, none of which would require decanting.

If wine needs decanting and filtering to make it drinkable then it wasn't worth more than $2/liter to begin with... just keep in mind that when you toss that empty bottle into the trash you disposed of that wine's best part.

Either that, or decant through a coffee filter. Those work just fine for removing sediment.

Who are you trying to kid, besides you're a registered TIADer!

Nonsense. Many very fine wines do have sediment. And most fine wines benefit from decanting. It makes a big difference, even if you can't tell. I can tell. Letting the wine breathe is trying to catch it at the right moment in its collapse after exposure to air. About 15 minutes after decanting is a good point to start tasting.

Just take a chance and hand it to em. If they see that you've opened it etc, they might wonder why. Better to risk a dud than look like you had a snort before re-bottling.

You didn't give us any information other than it's red and it's from Chili. It's probably a "drink now" type of wine, so I think you're making too much work for yourself.

We alway take wine when visiting friends to eat and we have never opened a bottle before giving it!

They may, depending on the food they have prepared, have provided their own wine to compliment it and the gift can be kept for another time.

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

"john brooks" wrote in news:im2h8a$lul$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:

I doubt if there are many Chilean wines that need decanting. Pop it open at the friends house about 20-30 mins before you are going to drink it, and that should be fine.

Clueless AOL newbie Sheldon "Pussy" Katz blathered:

Never even heard of vintage port, have you?

Bob

Just take some Boone's Farm from 7-11 and stop the necessary crossposting.

-sw

I thought Boone's Farm was a malt beverage these days.

Actually there is vintage port and it can be quite pricy, I posted about it a few times because it's one of my hobbies... someone educate this keyboard kook.

Um, duh. That was his point. That pricy vintage port often requires decanting due to sediment, which rather argues against the claim that wines worth more than $2/liter don't need decanting.

It was Sheldon. Don't expect it to make sense.

A few years ago my wife bought me a bottle of vintage port. It was wonderful stuff. I confess to being naive about vintage port. I had no idea there would be so much dregs in the bottom of the bottle. I would estimate that 10-15% of the volume of the bottle was dregs. Rude surprise.