Fifteen years ago, before meeting most of you, at my father’s house, a
decanting experiment was done. The exact day of that experiment’s fifteenth anniversary being inconvenient, let’s do another decanting experiment on Tuesday 28th February 2023.
What is to be the experiment? We could reproduce that from Feb 2008, or, if possible, improve on it.
jdaw1 wrote: ↑18:24 Sat 19 Jan 2008A magnum of Noval 1963 will be decanted in five different ways:
- Freehand into a magnum decanter, stopping before sediment appears. This ‘prime’ N63 will then be split three ways:
- through nothing;
- through new muslin;
- through washed muslin;
- The remaining sediment-rich ‘non-prime’ N63 will be decanted, with light swishing of bottle to really stir up the muck, in two ways:
- through an unbleached coffee filter;
- through new muslin.
All six decanters used will have been recently washed and obsessively rinsed.
That ’63 was decanted fifteen years ago, so this experiment could be with 1977s, and still be comparable to the previous results. And, happily, several of us have ’77 magnums.