Tag: decanting

Advice: Sir Lunchalot

Our in-house expert Sir Lunchalot is on hand to answer all your wine and spirits questions. This month he advises on the world of decanters – from the perfect method to which shape is best for which bottle Dear Sir, My wife and I have recently tied the knot and are now enjoying all the […]

On the simple art of decanting

Elaborate swirls of crystal, paraphernalia reminiscent of secondary-school chemistry and studious pouring; decanting can seem a mysterious business. Here our Wine Club Manager Katie Cooper demystifies the art of the decanter. The act of decanting a wine is pretty simple: in straightforward terms, it is transferring the wine from the bottle into another vessel, either […]

The great decanting debate

Welcome to one of the big questions in the world of wine: to decant or not to decant. Anne McHale MW, our education expert, takes to the floor to explore the issue. As I have discovered over the past eight years of working in wine education, the answer to nearly every single wine-related question is […]