Review on 🍷 Breville Electric Decanter BWD600SIL Sommelier - Brushed Stainless Steel by Monica Young

I am a white wine drinker but have been trying to switch to red wine as red wine has greater health benefits. The problem for me is that many red wines, especially the medium ones, are too tart and tannic for my taste. I know that decanting can alleviate these problems, but I rarely, if ever, have the time or desire to decant a glass of wine an hour or more before drinking it. I thought sommelier was the answer and it still is. What impressed me most about the way a sommelier works is that 90% oxygen is used during decanting, which is produced without chemicals. Another thing is how quickly it takes center stage when friends come over for dinner. Everyone is thrilled to see them doing their thing and most agreed that aeration improved the wine to a greater or lesser extent depending on the wine, but there was some improvement each time. I tested several different red wines, focusing on red wines from Chile and Argentina, as the wine regions in these countries produce the grapes that contain the most resveratrol. Resveratrol is the compound that gives red wines (and red grapes) their health benefits. The wines of Chile and Argentina are getting better and there are now some excellent winemakers producing excellent wines from these regions, but the cheaper bottles are still lighter. Find. The sommelier definitely made the not-quite-perfect Chilean Carmener very drinkable, as did the Mendozan-Shiraz. to the extent that I found this wine much more pleasant to drink. Ditto for the usual (always dubious) red "table wine" blend from California. I found smaller but still noticeable changes in California's zine, France's Burgundy, and Italy's Montepulciano. Decanters are available in two sizes. The included carafe offers a minimum of 5oz/150ml aeration (my regular glass) and a maximum of 25oz/750ml (standard size wine bottle), eliminating the need for me to buy an additional smaller 7oz/250ml carafe. The guide includes tables of aeration times for a range of popular wines, but there's an app if you need even more precision (it lets you enter country, region, grape, vintage and alcohol content to calculate perfect timing). In the manual the application is called "iFavine mini", but there is no such thing. There's iFavine (7.5MB) and iFavine Pro (35MB) so I assumed the first was a mini and that's what I'm using, but the table in the manual is perfectly adequate. As for the thickness of the carafe, it's not as shockingly thin as I thought it would be. Of course, caution is advised as replacement decanters are very expensive, but I've attached a photo showing a decanter with a set of wine glasses that I've had for years without breakage - the bottom decanter has the thickest glass compared to the hour hand. then an Orrefors crystal, a Riedel red wine glass and a Crate & Barrel glass goblet. My only minor complaint about the carafe is the difficulty in cleaning it due to the ingenious hose that provides ventilation. Gently swishing it back and forth lightly with soapy water and then making sure it's completely rinsed out seems to help. The ventilation tube takes a long time to dry, but eventually dries up. I wish a more attractive decanter lid was included. The "lid" appears to be a round piece of styrofoam packed in its own ziplock plastic bag that fits snugly into the opening of the carafe, but it doesn't look very pretty. I don't decant wine bottles every day, so something like a cork ball that can be placed on top of the decanter will keep the decanter clean when not in use. Of course you could find a nicer coating for this price. Apart from these two small remarks I am very satisfied with the sommelier. This makes red wines much easier to drink and I can now prefer reds to whites much more often. And I look forward to discovering more shades of red than before, which is pretty interesting in itself.