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Uploaded by on Nov 27, 2008

Port expert Tim Stanley-Clarke demonstrates how to decant a bottle of Graham's 1980 using a wire hanger and a pop sock

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  • Why didn't he use an ah-so, I can't believe he used a corkscrew THEN a coat hanger on that nice bottle.

  • After he washed the bottle with water, what did he rinse out the bottle with?

  • Visit the web site The Goodall Family Of Artists and all will be revealed. Heading off to the UK this morning for a couple of weeks.

    Cheers Richard

  • @Wilmot1550

    Fifty years! Who are you!?

  • I agree entirely with Tim. Granted, you can stand a bottle of vintage port upright so that all the sediment is deposted at the bottom of the bottle, open carefully and pour. I much prefer to decant so that when the last is poured into my glass or that of our guests, not even a particle of sediment is exchanged. And although fifty years have passed since I last saw Tim, I hope that I will have an opportunity to share a glass of decanted port with him. Well done Tim.

  • You don't need to decant vintage port. Aeration of a wine containing 18% etoh isn't needed. Ports have extensive sediment. If carefully kept upright, and handled gently the sediment doesn't need to leave the bottle. I uncork, and pour a glass, carefully. On the next night, and the night after we carefully pour. Don't waste port by decanting and straining. We have a stock of 1963 port, one of the great vintages of the 20th century, much older than the somnelier is working with.

  • Wrong!!

    With highly heated 'port tongs' you heat the neck of the bottle, drizzle water on it, break the neck off and decant - done!

  • sketchley special! Brilliant!! Thanks!!!

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