Giving Wine a Rest

[Thomas]

I waited long with this one mainly because I thought I had no opinion on it--BUT--

It seems to me the resting belief has merit and that merit comes from the action of oxygen. When wine is moved the oxygen is too, going in and out of suspension as much as that little space at the top of the bottle allows. We all know that oxygen plays an important role in opening up a wine, and maybe it also plays a role in obliterating--however temporarily--certain sensations from various components, and when the oxygen has time to rest everything else settles back to normal.