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Decant Time
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2020 10:13 am
by kohen
Good Morning Forum
Opening some wines for tonight, pasta night for birthday. Interested in thoughts on decant times for the following:
RWT 06
SVS Hoffman 06
Cantina Brunello Riserva 06
St Henri 10
Biondi Santi Rosso 12
Wendouree Shiraz 13
Appreciate any feedback
Re: Decant Time
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2020 10:16 am
by Rory
I had the Biondi Santi Rosso 10 last week. If you need to decant, maybe an hour before.
The RWT an hour before, the StHenri....... last week!
Re: Decant Time
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2020 10:41 am
by kohen
Cheers - how was it?
Also have a Radikon RS 17 - thinking it may need some decent airtime
Re: Decant Time
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2020 5:19 pm
by Mahmoud Ali
They're all relatively young wines so I expect they would all warrant a few hours of airing. A couple of them, as Rory suggests, could use considerably more.
Let us know what you did and how the wines fared.
Cheers ........................ Mahmoud.
Re: Decant Time
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 6:21 pm
by kohen
Hi M A
The Wendouree 13 was a highlight for me, the depth and layers of flavour shone - 5 hour decant
Others enjoyed the Rockford Hoffman, but I found it porty & a little simple
St Henri has many years to go, felt its too soon to open
RWT was singing, wish i had more bottles
Re: Decant Time
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:10 pm
by Michael McNally
kohen wrote:St Henri has many years to go, felt its too soon to open
Thanks for that. I have a few of these and was thinking of opening one to see what it's like at 10 years.
You clearly think it's too soon.
Cheers
Michael
Re: Decant Time
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:08 pm
by rens
Kohen, I'd do a double decant 24 hours before service to get any sediment off. Put the cap/cork back in/on and they will show well. You could even go 48 hours with most of those particularly the Wendouree.
A variation on the slow ox method. I call it the 'fast slow ox'.