Thanks for the thread. It reminded me of something.
I’ve been in the business for 40+ years, but can always learn something new. I posted some months ago about a great wine dinner with my friend Steve Morrison of Sterling Cellars in Mahopac, NY. He brought a wine tool I had never seen before, and have since ordered. It’s a bottle insert with an extremely fine stainless steel mesh.
I stand up my old reds for a day (2 or 3 if really old), then decant. I have a cradle that I use very infrequently for decanting very very old wines. For a quick and excellent way to get rid of sediment if the bottle has been jostled or hasn’t had time to settle, this is excellent, inexpensive and foolproof.
Dan Kravitz