In a previous blog post, I conducted an experiment to see if decanting wine really affected the taste.
That test revealed that it does. As a result, I use my decanter often.
Decanters are never cleaned with soap because no one wants the taste of their wine impacted by cleaning products that could remain in the decanter. As such, the normal cleaning procedure is to just rinse out the decanter with tap water and make sure it 100% dry before its next use. The rinsing process works well but is not 100% effective. Sometimes a little bit of slightly wine-infused water remains. When the water evaporates, the result is:
What to do? What to do? There’s actually a solution to this problem: cleaning beads shaped like flying saucers. From the customer reviews, it appears that the saucer shape works better than purely spherical ones.
I tried them, and they really work. Here are the instructions:
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Turn on the faucet and let the water get fairly hot.
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