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Serve your wine in an elegant Holmegaard wine carafe
Holmegaard wine carafes are Danish design at its best. They are both functional and decorative on the table and in the display cabinet. Holmegaard has several different types of wine carafe, so there's one for every style. If you prefer the classic and traditional style, you’ll love the wine carafe from the Cabernet series. This wine carafe is designed to enhance your wine experience and unleash its full potential in flavour and aroma.
The purpose of a wine carafe is to aerate the wine better. When you aerate the wine, you give it some air, and you could say that the wine is better allowed to 'breathe'. Aeration unfolds the wine’s aromas, giving you the taster a better wine experience. This applies to both smelling and drinking. Even the ordinary wines we grab off the supermarket shelves will taste better if aerated in a wine carafe.
The amount of time a wine needs to aerate varies. Wines that don't have so many years of experience need a fair amount of oxidation to open their aromas. With these wines, it is not enough to simply open the wine an hour before serving. It takes longer. The young wines usually have a lot of juice and strength in them, which is why it's an advantage to leave them for a while before serving. A good tip is to always listen to your wine merchant’s advice on how to aerate a given wine for. Many people aerate the wines much less than they actually need. So you can actually improve the wine experience with more aeration.
It's one of the many benefits of a wine carafe. It's beautiful to serve the wine in, it's Danish design of the highest class and it improves the taste experience of the delicious nectar. There is only a small drawback to the beautiful carafes, namely having to clean them after use. The more quirky and artistic the wine carafe is, the harder it is to clean. It can be particularly difficult if the wine carafe has dried-on wine residue. Therefore, it is always best if you remember to rinse it in water immediately after use, so that the wine isn't left to dry overnight and making it even more difficult to remove the stubborn stains.
To clean the wine carafe, you can use a special brush specially designed to get around the traditional wine carafe designs. It's also a good idea to use washing-up liquid. Add a small amount of vinegar too, if you have a high calcium content in the water in your area. Afterwards, remember to rinse with clean water before you leave the carafe to dry. The wine carafe is now cleaned and ready for the next time you aerate your wine.
Serve your wine in a Holmegaard wine carafe for a better and bigger wine experience.