Letting Wine Breathe

[yansee]

Talking about wine yesterday i could not remember a word used for uncorking a bottle of red and letting in breathe by the fire, i think it sounds a bit like flambe though i know that`s not it,been googling all morning but can`t find it,please help,Thanks

[dannyk13]

Aeration?

[Neveracrossword]

Chambre - it might have an accent at the end!

[goodgoalie]

Chambré

[Canary42]

I don't know the word, but came across this amusing extract while googling (perhaps you saw it too) :-

[i] .. using your body to warm your wine ... There are a number of ways to do this, such as resting the bottle ... between your legs for half an hour while you sit watching Eastenders. After an episode’s worth of gentle warming, you can try to time the popping of the cork with the show’s trademark closing drum roll! [i]

[diddlydo]

The verb is chambrer, the adjective is chambré.

[Buenchico]

I've got two observations to make here:

1. 'Chambré' does NOT refer to letting a wine 'breathe'. (i.e. aerating it). It refers to bringing it up to room temperature, which can be done just as well with the cork still in the bottle. From the OED:
http://www.upl.co/uploads/Chambr1548088199.jpg

2. Letting a wine 'breathe' is generally pointless anyway. See here:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/wine/hit-myth-should-obey-seven-rules-wine/
and here:
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/03/dining/wine-talk-no-breathing-required.html

[Jackdaw33]

As has been said, Chambrer is a verb meaning to bring to room temperature, Chambré is the past participle.

[Neveracrossword]

Sorry I used an adjective rather than the verb, but at least it seems to match your thinking, yansee.

[ethandron]

My son has a wine aerator which you pour the wine through, it really does, surprisingly, enhance the taste.

[Jackdaw33]

Derived from the word Chambre, a room, cf English Chamber.

[DTCwordfan]

if you are going to aerate it, decant it. Opening a bottle and putting it to one side or near a fire is useless - think about the surface area of the wine on show when the cork is removed. More sensible if going this route, would be to pour a glass to get the wine down into the main trunk of the bottle.

I haven't tried my aerator yet - am on my annual fallow period....interested to hear from others if they work or are a gimmick - I was given one for Christmas.

[ethandron]

They really do work, DT, we saw it on a wine programme a few years ago and tracked one down for him as they weren’t very well known at that time. If you taste the wine straight from the bottle...well, poured in a glass first obviously...and then taste it after it’s been through the aerator you really notice a difference.

[woofgang]

I did read also that red wine is not intended to be drunk at today's room temperatures but much cooler. Also this

http://i63.tinypic.com/b99elx.jpg

[vetuste_ennemi]

//I did read also that red wine is not intended to be drunk at today's room temperatures but much coole//

Absolutely. I've been to restaurants which thought chambré meant warm.

[ethandron]

Ha ha woods, I’m all for that method :)
And you’re right about room temp, rooms were a lot colder in them there days.

[ethandron]

‘Woofy’ not woods, doh

[Buenchico]

>>> I did read also that red wine is not intended to be drunk at today's room temperatures but much cooler

Agreed, Woofgang:
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/worklife/a14439833/red-wine-right-temperature/

However it's the idiots who drink white wine straight from the fridge that annoy me. It's wine, not lager, and should be served at around 10C (plus or minus 2C). Serving white wine over-chilled destroys its flavour.

[woofgang]

oh dear.....I like my white wine with ice in

[Togo]

Let a wine breathe? I drink mine so fast that I can hardly breathe. (^_*)

[vetuste_ennemi]

My "wine cellar" is a Samsung thingy which has temperature settings of 7c for white and 13c for red.