Here poured is a 2024 Miason Chanzy chardonnay. This is my first time trying white wine. I love it way more than I was expecting. It tastes very refreshing; I feel like I should be on a beach with this. I still don't understand how to give flavor notes. I feel like it tastes appley. Like green apple. I hope that is good enough.
The point of this post is to ask how to properly use a decanter for storage. After pouring my bottle into the decanter, if I don't finish the bottle (often do not as I am the only drinker in the house), I put the stopper on and place it in the door of the fridge. I used to leave it in my cupboard but noticed it didn't last.
Should I be pouring it back in the bottle and using the cork instead?
by SeaworthinessNew4295
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Just make a cover out of foil and make sure it’s on tight. Works perfectly.
I pour it back in the bottle and cork it. Or just pour it down my throat, it depends.
Just finish it.
If you drink about half of a 750ml bottle, good idea to have an empty 375ml bottle around and pour the remaining wine into that, cork it, and place in fridge. This results in far less air being in contact with the wine than if pouring back into the 750ml bottle or keeping it in the decanter, and therefore the wine degrades much slower. Putting on bottom shelf and towards the back helps a bit too, as in most fridges that is the coolest area. Can reuse the 375ml bottle many times.
You can store it in the fridge in the the decanter with the stopper or pour it back in the wine bottle. It’s pretty much the same.
Only decant what you plan to drink.
I usually only decant what I intend to drink. But if I don’t finish it I will pour it back into the bottle. Unless it’s port.
I love decanters but I would never use one for wine, I’m always worried about too lose of a seal.
I trust my hard liquors in them but not wine.
If you aren’t going to finish it, decant in the glass.
Mason jars. Fill to the brim and put it in the fridge.
Just out of curiosity I looked up whether there are decanters with a vacuum seal top, and this was the first thing that came up in my search: https://usa.etowine.com
I don’t drink enough wine of any kind of quality worth splurging on a $200 decanter but I bet someone here has gotta have one and can offer their opinion!
Pour the decanted wine back into the bottle (use a funnel!)
Right back into the bottle
Im not familiar with this technique. What does it mean to “not finish it”?
My decanter has a wooden ball stopper you can use to store wine that you don’t drink.
I very rarely use it.
Those decanters are beautiful. Unfortunately, I’m the only wine drinker in the family. And my standard at-home serving is about a third of what they would serve at a restaurant.
Decanting is usually one way street. There is no way to have a bottle be good for storage after decanting. Even if you pour it back and store it in fridge. Just don’t decant more than you plan to drink. Or decant whole bottle in halves to allow for options.
What is this undrank wine?
If you actually want to preserve the wine for more than another day:
1. Get a can of 100% argon spray. You can get them on Amazon or other sources, it’s like $15 and will last 50+ uses. Make sure it’s argon and not a cheap nitrogen one like Private Preserve.
2. Pour the wine back in the bottle, spray 1 second of argon on it, recork, and store upright.
It works far better than just stoppering the decanter or recorking the bottle, and also far better than those vacuum pump stoppers.
The only thing that’s going to keep it longer is not using a decanter and getting a Coravin, which is much more expensive and also kind of a pain (I have one, and it’s great for sampling a glass to see if a bottle is ready to drink, or if you only want one glass. But if you’re opening and decanting a bottle, the Coravin is not the right tool.)
Argon is heavy enough to displace any oxygen in the bottle. It is also inert, so it has no effect on flavor or anything.
If i end up not finishing the decanter, I just funnel it back into the original bottle.
Don’t finish it? Confused.
This concept of not finishing, please explain
Step 1 get more friends that want to drink your wine
There is no step 2
First, you shouldn’t have to decant a 2024 white.
We finish it