YEARLY HOLIDAY PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE: Please don't even think about buying a wine aerator as a gift this year. Wine Aerators: $336.9 Million Worth of Bullsh*t https://www.vinography.com/2021/03/wine-aerators-336-9-million-worth-of-bullsht via @vinography
Wine Aerators: $336.9 Million Worth of Bullsh*t : Vinography

It's practically criminal that these plastic pieces of junk continue to be purchased. They prey on insecurity, are bad for the planet, and generally just suck.

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@vinography I’d be too scared to try myself but didn’t some reports say that you can aerate with a blender? I can only imagine that a simple egg beater or whisk can beat a ton of air into wines
@EmilieH so called “hyper-decanting” is the wine equivalent of cooking your steak with a jet engine. Can you do it? Yes. Worth the trouble of brutalizing your beverage? No. If wine is going to improve with air, pouring it out of a bottle into another vessel and then back into the same bottle gives it pretty much all the air it needs, especially if you do that an hour or two before you are gonna drink.
@vinography Yes. That is what I do now. But have always wondered about using an egg whisk.
@EmilieH it won’t do anything that vigorously swirling the bottle or decanter will do.
@vinography I imagine but am too afraid to try to use a blender or an egg whisk. And as you said, why bother doing it when there is a perfectly acceptable way of aerating wine (as you described).