Airtime for a 1992 Grange

zachary_l_a_n_g · April 21, 2009, 3:49pm

What are your thoughts for how long to decant this puppy?

Bill_Tex_Landreth · April 21, 2009, 4:02pm

Interested to know as I have a bottle as well.

Cris_Whetstone · April 21, 2009, 4:03pm

Slo-ox it. Open it early in the morning of the day you will drink it. Or maybe even the night before.

mike_pobega · April 21, 2009, 4:05pm

I would say start with p&p. See where it starts.
17 years on and it might be at that point already…

ToddFrench · April 21, 2009, 4:07pm

Jorge_Henriquez · April 21, 2009, 4:14pm

Surely you meant “Audoze it”.

Jorge_Henriquez · April 21, 2009, 4:56pm

Michael_Bowden · April 21, 2009, 6:05pm

Your right in the middle of the RP drink range. I would open it 3-4 hours ahead and put it in a decanter. Watch it change, this is one of the pleasures of watching a great wine change in the glass.

Enjoy.

Jeff_Pf0h1 · April 21, 2009, 7:12pm

It is drinking ok but isn’t life altering. When in doubt, open a few hours before, try 1 oz, if you like it recork and stick in refrigerator. If you don’t decant, try every hour until you like it, recork and stick in refrigerator.

The 1992 can be popped and poured. It isn’t closed. Will it benefit from air, most likely.

Jeff_Pf0h1 · April 21, 2009, 7:15pm

Now wait a minute… I was under the impression you had the one bottle of 1996 only. And thus were really agonizing over when to drink your “only bottle of grange”… I got suckered
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Bill_Tex_Landreth · April 21, 2009, 8:05pm

I only had one bottle of '96 left of two and a single '92.

john_holdredge · April 22, 2009, 7:59pm

And IIIRC, you already promised to drink the 92 with me.

Bill_Tex_Landreth · April 22, 2009, 8:40pm

You sir, are correct.