Andrew L. Waterhouse, a professor in the department of viticulture and enology at the University of California at Davis, explains. The decanting of red wines has a long tradition in high quality wine ...

As oenophiles know, red wine often produces sediment as it ages, introducing a bitter flavor and gritty texture to the wine. The process of removing these impurities by carefully pouring the wine from ...

A wine decanter should be much more than an eye-catching item to display on your bar cart. Decanting involves slowly pouring the wine from its bottle into another vessel, where it’s allowed to rest in ...

"Romans used decanting, and the only reason we need to decant now is to remove sediment. Older wines over time, bigger-skin grapes like Bordeaux, have sediment. It releases the esters (specific aromas ...

There are three, nonnegotiable things every wine drinker needs. First, uh, wine. Second, a corkscrew to open aforementioned wine. Third—I’m sorry, but not the wine glass charms you bought on something ...

Bathrooms as we know them are a relatively modern innovation, becoming a middle-class American standard in the late 1800s. But one element of bathrooms that hasn't changed much, is that there never ...