Wine list that needs a sober
Wine list that needs decanting: high vintage red wines with sediment
Bordeaux dry red wines: Premiers Crus, Grands Crus, CrusClasses, Grand Crus de Saint-Emilion, Gands Promerols.
Rhone Valley wines:
Hermitage and Northern Rhone wines, and Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
Other French wines:
High quality Provencal wines and Madiran.
Italian wines:
Barolo, grandsvinidatavola, for example Sassicaia.
Spanish wines: Vega Sicilia, high quality Penedes and some Riojas with sediment.
Portuguese wines: Vintage Port and Late-bottled, Tawny doesn’t need to be decanted.
New World wines: Cabernet and Syrah from California, Australia and Chile. young red wine
Bordeaux wines: some small wineries in Bordeaux.
Burgundy wines:
Beaujoule Cru and Coted’Or.
Rhone Valley wines: almost all red wines.
Other French wines: Chors, Cotes-de-Bordeaux and all wines made in the traditional way.
White wine
For some white wines, decanting before drinking also improves its quality, such as: vintage dry white from the Loire, high-quality dry white from Graves, late harvest white wine from Alsace, and German Rhine and Mussel. White wine, Spanish Rioja dry white in oak barrels.
Wine that cannot pass through a decanter
Very old Bordeaux and Burgundy reds, young dry whites, champagne and sparkling wines.
