Re-post from August, 2008 Last post was a little bit of History of the Decanter. Now let's talk a bit about "How to Decant Wine" Simply put, "decanting wine" is pouring wine from the wine bottle into another container. Two reasons for decanting wine is to remove sediment from the wine you are drinking and to aerate the wine. Better to decant. MORE >>

I was talking to a gentleman at a retail wine shop in the city last night and he asked me about decanting.  I told him that while I sometimes like to decant a real young wine, unless I knew I’d be pouring the whole bottle at once (to a crowd - not drink it all [.]. MORE >>

Cory Cartright celebrated natural wines on hs blog Saignee. There, he collected a myriad of voices for 31 Days of Natural wine essays and articles with 'guest' bloggers. Noble! He even got me to write for free, even after I publicly said NEVER AGAIN. And those, I imagine came up because Cory was very reluctant to edit or pass judgement. Correct? MORE >>

Re-post from January, 2009 In the case of wine, pouring the wine into the cara fe from the wine bottle, also assists in the decanting of the wine. Decanting is the process of removing sediment from the original wine bottle by pouring only the clear wine into a serving container. Wine has been mentioned in our earliest recorded history. MORE >>

Anthony Dias Blue published an editorial in the July issue of his print publication, The Tasting Panel entitled, “…And Who Regulates the Bloggers?” In it, he calls me–without naming me specifically–a “barbarian blogger.&# Then he pivots to lash out at bloggers more generally. He put the price tag on that trip at $25,000. MORE >>