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Vinturi

The Vinturi Essential Wine Aerator has become one of our most popular items, and with good reason.

Not so long ago I did not drink red wines.  It was a rarity when I would encounter one I truly enjoyed.  Decanting, I've since learned, is essential for young red wines.  It isn't, as I mistakenly assumed, just for show.  I may be the only person on the planet who suffered from red wine ignorance, but I've been schooled.  Big time.

My guy and I discovered Vinturi quite by happy accident and am I ever glad we did.

Properly decanting wine is primarily a waiting game.  

Expose the greatest amount of surface area of the wine to the air by pouring it in to a decanter...  

Then wait.  

For an hour... 

to

an hour and a half.  

Once decanted, the bouquet of red wine opens up.  The tannins soften which removes what I called the bite of wine (which is what always prevented me from enjoying it).  Decanting softens the wine and exposes flavors one might not otherwise notice.

But who wants to wait an hour and a half?  Not us.  Which is why I never fully appreciated the complexities of a good red before.

And this is where the Vinturi comes in....

This fantastic wine gadget will fully aerate your wine, by the glass or by the bottle, in mere seconds.  There is nothing extraordinary you must do except pour!  We like to say the Vinturi has an audio feature as it makes a unique slurping sound, not unlike that a sommelier might make when sampling a wine.

What we like about it...

It has a simple, clean appearance with the upper bowl resembling a wine glass.

Vinturi comes with a thoughtful stand which will catch the drips and a little drawstring bag so that you can take it out with you (we take ours to restaurants all the time).

It really works and it works really well.  In fact, there is nothing we don't like about it so we say...

Its Hot!

 

Of Reds and Whites

I've been a die hard Chardonnay fan for most of my adult life.  Red wine and I, well, we just didn't mix.  My taste buds prefer things light and crisp.  I'm certain this has nothing at all to do with an unfortunate experience at a post high school house party and a box of red wine.  But thats another story.

A couple of years ago I was introduced to a Pinot Noir which improved my opinion of reds.  It was a delightful wine, smooth and silky, and my taste buds approved.  Since that time I have sampled many reds, typically with the same reaction.  While others savored them I puckered. Perhaps my taste buds are more than just a little persnickety.  

There is a reason, I've always known, that red wine is decanted.  I just didn't buy into it.  It isn't just something a wine snob would do in an attempt to impress.  To a wine aficionado, decanting is imperative simply because it does improve the wine.  Period.  Decanting is done for one of two reasons.  With older wines which have aged in the bottle it is done to remove the sediment which can tarnish the taste and experience of the wine.  With younger wines it is done to aerate them which softens their flavor and improves the bouquet.

 

Who, though, actually has, or takes, the time to decant their wine?  I typically only have wine when dining out.  If most people follow that same behavior then its not surprising that most people haven't experienced the improvement decanting will have on a wine.  If the dining experience is typically two hours, and properly decanting a wine takes somewhere in the vicinity of an hour and a half, and the babysitter is costing $8 an hour, and you are first time parents, and you have the imagination of Stephen King, and you're pretty sure the house is going to burn to the ground if you don't get home as fast as you can...  Well, is it any wonder we don't bother to have the wine decanted when we're out for dinner?

I've recently been schooled. Big time. In our travels this month we discovered a simple little device which, in all taste tests we performed, improved a variety of wines into perfectly palatable and enjoyable libations.  I am reformed.  So much so that I immediately sought out a distributor so that you too can fully appreciate all that a red wine has to offer.

Let me introduce you to our new dining out companion.   

Vinturi aerates the wine as it is poured.  This elegant looking wine accessory improves the bouquet and taste of a wine instantly.  It can make almost any red "the most romantic of wines, with so voluptuous a perfume, so sweet an edge, and so powerful a punch that, like falling in love, they make the blood run hot and the soul wax embarrassingly poetic."  Although Joel Fleischman (of Vanity Fair fame - and the author of that quote) was talking about Pinot Noir specifically we are confident that Vinturi can make almost any wine seem stellar.

  

To learn more about the Vinturi aerator visit us at the house or have a look at our website where Vinturi is currently our featured product.  Take me there!