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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

To decant or not decant? That is the age-old question. Here are five things to consider before pouring that wine. I love decanting ­– the ceremony, the theatre, the mechanics – but it can be ...

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 ...

Disgraced US President Richard Nixon's list of crimes even extended to fraudulent decanting. But when should you decant – if at all? White House entertaining budgets didn’t always stretch to the fine ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first wine I ever decanted was a 1979 Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon (Oddbins, £1.99). I can’t have been more ...