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[Innkeeper]

We decant almost all our red wines. It gives them all a little more time to show their best. You must have a wide mouth decanter; we use an "old" Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice bottle. They use plastic these days, so you need to pay a little more. The decanting adds oxygen which is good for the moment, but not for long. Drink up. A closed mouth decanter does no more good than a bottle, except for the decanting. If it is not an old bottle, and you can't detect any sediment in the bottle; use the glug, glug method of decanting. A wine that "needs more time" can be decanted at an hour per year needed in a pinch, but won't be quite as good.

[This message has been edited by Innkeeper (edited 07-24-2002).]