tasadam wrote:tasadam wrote:What I have in mind is to take 3 wines to a wine tasting group I am in - decant one bottle into the PlatyPreserve, decant another bottle into the first bottle (so that two wines are given the same air contact), and leave a third unopened.
Or maybe four, as taswaterfalls.com suggests take a coopers bag as well.
Leave all four for three days or so - to give them a chance to suffer their own fate if they are going to, then have the wines assessed by the wine tasting group.
Stay tuned...
It's about time I let you all know how this went.
I performed the tasting as planned, using a wine of medium quality, yet one that not many in the group would have likely been very familiar with - a Rosemount Sangiovese.
As planned, three days before the tasting I poured one bottle into the PlatyPreserve, poured another into that bottle, and left the third bottle unopened.
They sat together at room temperature in our house for the settling time.
At the tasting, the wine from the PlatyPreserve was poured back into a bottle before pouring at the table so it was not obvious which was which - everyone had 3 glasses labelled A, B, C to match the label I put on the wines. I should also say that the bottle it was poured back into was the same bottle, washed and dried and also at the same temperature.
The tasting was conducted in the presence of in excess of 12 people - all regular wine drinkers who know their stuff.
The general consensus was that the best wine of the three was the one that came from the PlatyPreserve. A show of hands had most of the tasting group preferring that one.
The previously unopened wine was second, and the wine decantered from one bottle to another and recorked was third.
The unopened wine was closed, youthful, fruity. The decanted wine to another bottle was similar but had lost a little of its fruityness.
By far the one from the PlatyPreserve was the best, and even I was surprised at how this wine had changed by being in the PlatyPreserve for a few days.
The reason is simple - being in a slightly more permeable vessel for a few days, the wine had time to breathe and really open up and come alive.
There was no oxidation at all, and the wine was displaying no detectable negative characters because of being in essentially a plastic bag.
So, in conclusion, for shorter trips, the PlatyPreserve would do an excellent job, even to the point of accelerating the aeration and opening-up of the wine which would be a good thing unless you wanted to decant your '83 Grange into it. Don't do that, by the way - bring it here instead!
Because of the slightly accelerated aeration, I would be reluctant to try and push the timeframe out much further than a few days. But I may be tempted to try, and report my findings.
Port or muscat would be a completely different matter entirely, so if you were looking for a liquid to put in your PlatyPreserve for a longer duration, that would be my choice!
A 7 day walk, two people, that's about 50ml each a day - that's quite enough to finish off a great day!
Excellent work tasadam, thanks very much.
) Banrock Station cab merlot in a 2 L bladder or Budnaked 1.5L bladder. All the niceness of an evening glass of red with out the glass or the need to decant from the bottle - its even good wine 
