My favorite wines are dry, Italian reds; however, the problem often has been that they require a long time to breathe - like hours. Thus, I was searching in Amazon for the best-reviewed decanter and Amazon directed me to this...despite it not being a decanter. I was skeptical at first, but noticed the hundreds of positive five-star reviews, the steep discount and purchased mine at around thirty dollars.
It is a superb product. It is sturdy with a nice, solid weight to it, and I find it is best deployed with an existing decanter because otherwise one will make a mess pouring wine through it from glass to glass.
One one pours red wine through it one can actually hear the wine being aerated - kind of an interesting sound - as it passes through multi-chambers and swirls out the end. The red wine that comes out - as the manufacturer promises - tastes like it has breathed for hours in that much of the harshness that would otherwise be in the wine is gone. I still recommend that once one aerates a dry red Italian wine or any other wine that needs to breathe for long periods of time allows the wine to sit either in the decanter or glass for fifteen to thirty minutes in a chill place to finish the breathing process of the wine as I have found that drinking old world wines immediately after passing through this product are still slightly harsh.
Cleaning is relatively easy in that one must only pass warm or cold water through both ends. The manufacturer does not recommend putting it through a dishwasher, and I understand this because soap scum will be caught in the chambers, be difficult to remove, and thus affect the taste of the wine passing through it.
A superb product. The only downside is that it can be difficult to store and dry without getting wine everywhere or having it roll around although it does come with a stand to put it in...but it needs to be clean and dry before it is placed in there otherwise wine will get in the stand.
Really, this is just nitpicking. Every red wine drinker should have one of these.
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| weight | — | 0.25 kilograms | 0.77 pounds | — | 0.44 pounds | 0.03 pounds |
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It works!
Was so excited to receive my aerator today and couldn't wait to give it a try. Sadly, all my nice wines met their demise with last week's festivities, so I dug around and found a cheapo mini boxed Merlot tucked away (don't judge...it's all I had on hand!) I opened my order to find a well packaged beautifully designed aerator with stand and black velvet bag. It's pretty enough to keep on display. Uncorked my "fine" wine (who are we kidding...I unscrewed that baby like it was the last beer to be found) and poured about an inch into two identical glasses. The first glass was pure unadulterated swill, the second glass I poured through my new aerator...a bubbly effervescence.Let the taste testing commence...First glass, un-aeratated. Not gonna lie. It was pretty bad. Hint of vinegar tones. Unappealing to the taste buds. Probably would have thrown the rest away unless I was desperate. Which I wasn't. Again, who am I kidding? I woulda choked it down.Second glass, aerated. Okay, I admit. I was shocked. Didn't even taste like the same wine. True, it still was a cheap red wine, but it was palatable. Smoothed it right out, took out the vinegar notes. Enabled me to finish the rest of the box. Not sure if that's a good thing but hey...again, no judgement.Gave 5 stars for ease of cleaning, even though I haven't washed it yet, but doesn't look like rocket science to me and I've been cleaning dishes for over 50 years so think I can handle it.Final consensus...if this thing works on crap wine, can't wait to try it on a good bottle!P.S. I hid the brand of wine to protect the winemaker and those who drink this on a regular basis and think it's good wine. Tip...buy the aerator. It'll make a big difference.
