Why do sommeliers decant old bottle of wine?

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anor277
Jul 21, 2017

So that you don't get any sediment in your wine glass........

Explanation:

Typically, we would use decantation to separate a SOLID precipitate from a liquid; for instance a fine port from the crust that it throws on the bottom of the bottle. Of course we could do this in the chemistry lab as well, and achieve a preliminary separation of a liquid from a solid deposit.

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