The lost whiskey is called the ‘angel’s share’. While whiskey doesn’t need oxidization to bring out its flavors, if it’s continually exposed to oxygen, it will begin to evaporate. A Whiskey Decanter Can Help You Preserve Your Whiskey That way the visual appeal and the taste of your whiskey will be maintained. Pouring such whiskeys into a decanter will keep the sediment in the bottle and not in your glass. Many whiskeys don’t need decanting, although some older ones or certain port whiskies do. Sediment is a problem because its acidity and bitterness will affect the taste of your drink and because it’s simply not pleasant to see small flecks of material floating about in your drink. The second is to separate the liquid from any sediment that might be at the bottom of the bottle. The first, aeration, we’ve already discussed. There are in fact, two reasons to decant any liquid. Whiskey Decanters Allow You to Separate the Whiskey From the Sediment What does a whiskey decanter do? While a wine decanter enhances the flavor of the wine, a whiskey decanter enhances the class and sophistication of drinking whiskey.
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Ok fine, but you get the point.Īnd if you need any proof of this just look at every movie you’ve ever seen, where lawyers, politicians, businessmen, action heroes, spies, evil villains trying to take over the world, and anyone trying to look like they have class and sophistication, pour whiskey from decanters. What else screams class and style more than that? This makes it a super luxury and an extravagance. Now all you need is someone to serve it to you.Īnd ironically, it may be that storing whiskey in a beautiful, probably expensive, crystal whiskey decanter adds style and class not only because it’s a beautiful, probably expensive, crystal whiskey decanter, but because it’s a beautiful, probably expensive, crystal whiskey decanter that you do not need for flavor-enhancing purposes. Storing a drink of such caliber in a container that reflects its grandeur can only add to it. That’s quite classy and stylish to begin with. The most important thing a whiskey decanter does is to add class and style to your whiskey drinking, an activity which is already pretty sophisticated.Īfter all, your whiskey has been aging in a barrel for perhaps decades, you’re going to use a specially designed whiskey nosing glass to help you open up and detect all the aromas and flavors and you’re going to savour and appreciate all the complex nuances of your whiskey. A Whiskey Decanter Adds Class and Style to an Already Sophisticated Drink In contrast whiskey decanters, not constrained to being the best shape for enhancing the flavor of its contents, have a greater degree of design flexibility and are built for stability, class and beauty. They usually have no stopper which means more opportunity for air to get to the wine and a large bowl for as much surface area of wine as possible to touch the air. Wine decanters are specifically designed and shaped to increase oxidization. Also, a higher alcohol content makes something much more resistant to change – as I’ve tried to explain to my wife many times but apparently that’s not a good excuse for all my bad habits.Īny affect air will have on whiskey can be achieved when it’s poured into a good whiskey glass and given a swirl or two.Ī cursory look at both wine and whiskey decanters will confirm all this. It is the tannins whose flavors can dramatically change over time so whiskey, being low in tannins, will maintain its flavor. This does not happen in whiskey because it has less tannins than wine and more alcohol content.
Oxygen gets to the wine and it opens up the aromas and flavors. When wine is decanted (which is just a fancy word meaning to slowly pour from one vessel to another) it is aerated. This is in contrast with wine decanters that do. Whiskey decanters do not help enhance the flavor of the whiskey.
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