Assistant White House Usher Daniel Shanks, the president's wine guru, offered us this trick to decanting fine wines. For a big California cab, for example, pour it out three hours early, but don't leave it in the decanter. "Pour it back in the bottle," he suggests. That gives it two shots of flavor-inducing air--and you can remember what it is.
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