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In the Thread: Wine, women, song.. and audio
Post Subject: AerationPosted by de charlus on: 8/7/2013
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Nothing wrong with those wine-swirling devices, although they do strike me as being an elaborate solution to a simple problem. That said, they do the job, and people like their wine gadgetry. PS If you're getting burning rubber on the nose - and you don't happen to be drinking S.A. Pinotage, which is vile and unquestionably the work of Satan - you may be encountering a wine fault resulting from an unwanted reaction between sulphur and yeast, resulting in the presence of mercaptans. Extended aeration can ameliorate this somewhat, but it will never be a perfect bottle, merely a drinkable one, no matter how much you scourge it.
de Charlus
PS By way of dichotomy, one of the loveliest synergies of music and wine I've lately encountered has been the Mozart Requiem with The English Baroque Soloists, The Monteverdi Choir, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner on Phillips, with the Tokaji Essencia 1995 from The Royal Tokaji Company. This nectar is so intense that it takes many years to ferment to 3% alcohol, with an incredible 85% residual sugar. There's something so decadent about sipping such ambrosial stuff whilst such musical beauty washes over one.
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