The Essential Principles of Decanting Wine: When and How to Decant

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Decanting wine is one of those gestures that you see wine professionals and connoisseurs do, but that is a little intimidating for everyone else. It can be a little daunting first: to know which wine to decant or not, and then how to do it, right?

While, at the end of the day, decanting wine is not very complicated, and knowing what to decant and when can be summarized in a few simple rules.
The reality is that even the average wine consumer could greatly improve its wine tasting experiences by decanting wines more often.
So here are a few rules of thumb to help you understand what decanting does to make wine better, and how to execute the gesture.

02:47 Why Decant Wine?
05:48 Which Wines Should You Decant?
07:48 When to Decant
09:24 How to Decant
12:34 Epilogue