Why are you supposed to let a bottle of wine “breathe” after opening it?
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In practice it makes very little difference if you are just pulling the cork and leaving it in the bottle. The wines surface area with air is just the neck diameter which is tiny.
Buy a very expensive wine in a restaurant and they will decant and aerate it. This will allow more of the wines aromas to release and importantly soften the tanins.
This are the same reasons people swill wine in the glass
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