Giving Wine a Rest

[winecollector]

The only advice I can give you Bucko, is to give this a try. Everytime my sister-in-law comes over and tours the wine cellar, sooner or later she gets her hands on one of my wine bottles and starts shaking it up! Perhaps you can invite my sister-in-law over, and about 15 minutes before your ready to open a bottle of wine, have her go get it for you. Let me know if it made a difference!

Seriously though, again this was the first I've heard of "resting". While support from the guys in the lab coats might be lacking on the subject, I think Foodie brings out a good point about the air in the bottle mixing around with the wine, when the bottle is handled or transported. He may have something there. I'm not going to discount this theory just because of lack of credible evidence. There's been too many times in the past when the "so-called experts" have changed positions on their research. Remember about 25 years ago, when they started to say margarine was better for your health than butter?