Gurgle

It was a red wine kind of night, and we decided we’d like to try the wine we had taken to the tasting we had gone to earlier in the summer. It was a Ladoix premier cru, and we had bought three bottles (just in case). We knew it probably needed a bit of time to breathe, but we had not thought ahead and were not particularly in the mood to wait. So Brian said, ‘let’s try the aerator that Jerome had bought for us. We can test it out, and do a before and after taste’.

We first tried a glass that had not been aerated, and we both found it a little closed. We thought it had more to give, which usually comes either with age or decanting. Brian then poured a second glass, slowly and steadily, through the aerator. It gurgled and slurped it’s way through the funnel, emerging slightly bubbled into the glass.

We were both pleasantly surprised, the wine was definitely far more open and ready to be drunk. What could have been a lack-lustre experience was in fact a pleasant evening with a rich and fruity wine.