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Default Taking some wine to friends house.

On 20/03/2011 12:49 PM, James Silverton wrote:
> On 3/20/2011 12:39 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 20/03/2011 12:14 PM, Paul Arthur wrote:
>>
>>>>> Never even heard of vintage port, have you?
>>>>
>>>> Actually there is vintage port and it can be quite pricy,
>>>
>>> Um, duh. That was his point. That pricy vintage port often requires
>>> decanting due to sediment, which rather argues against the claim that
>>> wines worth more than $2/liter don't need decanting.

>>
>> It was Sheldon. Don't expect it to make sense.
>>
>> A few years ago my wife bought me a bottle of vintage port. It was
>> wonderful stuff. I confess to being naive about vintage port. I had no
>> idea there would be so much dregs in the bottom of the bottle. I would
>> estimate that 10-15% of the volume of the bottle was dregs. Rude
>> surprise.
>>
>>

> Is any harm done by filtering out the dregs?
>

We ended up pouring it through a fine sieve. It was fine, but I was
amazed at the volume of the dregs.