At this year’s Spit or Swallow Box Wine Awards we invited the good people of Vinturi to come and demonstrate their aerators and help the boxes preform a bit better.
So what’s this aerating stuff anyway?
It’s all about letting the wine breathe, or aerate, by allowing the vino to mix and mingle with air. Have you ever seen those wine geeks swirlling their wine in the glass, or making weird sucking noises when drink the stuff? Well that’s their DIY attempts to get some air in the wine. This will typically warm up the wine’s aromas and mellow out some of the harsh flavours. Exactly what the doctor ordered for wine in a box.
But who wants to sound like a Hover every time you drink wine? Vinturi luckily developed some cool gadgets to do the job for you.
When wine is poured in the Vinturi, its internal design creates an increase in the wine’s velocity and a decrease in its pressure. This pressure difference draws in air which is mixed with the wine for perfect aeration and voilà, out comes smooth yummy vino.
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Vinturi was also generous enough to give away one of these nifty gadget to one lucky box wine taster at this year’s awards and we are super excited to announced the Christopher Fry is now the proud owner of a Vinturi White wine aerator.
