Sassy Sidenote: Let's Blend Our Wine-Hyperdecanting!

I enjoy wine.
A nice, chilled, white on a summer day or a yummy red with an equally yummy meal-yes, please. And thank you.

That being said I don't really know what to look for when choosing a wine as far as quality is concerned. I do know that the older, the better- but those wines are expensive...so I mainly just choose wine by the label which has proved successful thus far. Jon and I bought a moderately (meaning $10.99) priced wine the other night and as he cracked it open he suggested that we throw it in the blender first.

I was confused, did he want to make wine smoothies? If so, that's weird-but I'm game.
No, a wine smoothie was not what he was after.
Jon reads "The Blog Of Tim Ferriss" and he said that Mr. Ferris mentioned how to "hyper decant" (essentially, aging your wine five years in 20 seconds).

Basically, when people do that swishing around the glass with their red they are letting air get into the wine, thus enhancing the flavor. So if that little swish, swish in the wine glass works imagine what a blender would do?! Well, we followed Tim's advice and blended half of our wine (for roughly 20-30 seconds) and saved the other half for a taste test.

At this point I left the room so that Jon could poor the two specimens of wine so that my taste test would be blind. He brought me two wine glasses, I tasted both and immediately had a clear winner and sure enough, it was the blended wine! Like I said, I don't really know what makes wine "good" so I can't really tell you if the " bouquet was pungent" or it had a "nice oakey flavor", but I did know that the wine that had been blended tasted A LOT better.

So go ahead and try it, and come back here and let me know your results!

(Ed note: We used red wine for this experiment. I'm not sure if white would work, but someone try it and let me know!)