Decanting tips
Firstly, stand the bottle up for a few hours (or preferably, days) before you open it. This will allow any sediment to settle at the bottom of the bottle.
Before decanting wine, we suggest you pour a small amount out into a wine glass. Understanding the wine’s state upon its first opening will help guide your decanting decision.
The timing allocated to each wine will differ depending on its style, varietal and age. All of our red wines will benefit from at least 30 minutes rest after being decanted, with two hours being a good average to work around.
We recommend all our red wines are double decanted. To do this, open the bottle carefully and slowly decant the wine into a clean jug in a continuous stream, ensuring the sediment is not disturbed. Then simply rinse the original bottle out with clean water to dispose of all the residual sediment. Once clean, hold the bottle upside down until all the water has completely drained out.
Using a clean funnel carefully refill it from the decanter. This double aeration of the wine will also help the wine open up, however with very old wines it is advisable to trickle the wine very carefully and slowly down the sides of the decanter and bottle to minimise splashing and aeration.
