THE CELLAR & TREATMENT
A
glass of wine when it is poured out should be perfectly clear and bright, and in order that it may be so, the wine in the decanter must be in a similar con-
it.
dition. This, at all
events in the
case of old wines which throw a deposit,
depends entirely upon
the care that has been taken in
drawing the cork and transferring the wine from the bottle to the decanter, and the operation is a delicate one.
To begin
bottle should not
lessly
from
its
with, the
be seized ruth-
place in the bin,
swayed about, turned upside down perhaps, and treated generally like a bottle of medicine
whose ingre-
dients have to be well fore being taken, but 139
it
mixed beshould be