MENU Wine Breather for Red Wine, High-End Quality Glass Decanter, Original Scandinavian Designer Carafe with Built In Functional Aeator, Wine Accessory for Serving and Decanting (Clear-Silver)

My husband read about this carafe in a wine magazine and thought, "yeah, right. It's just another aerator, but this one has a carafe." But we read the 2 reviews on Amazon and thought maybe this is worth trying. It absolutely is! This is better than just an aerator.We've been testing our wines since getting this-- having some before running them through the carafe and then again afterward. What a difference! It really can make a mediocre, even a bad, wine good! One wine we tried we found we didn't like at all. It's one we would have thrown out after a few sips-- too many harsh tannins and where was the fruit? But after using the Menu Winebreather Carafe, it was actually a very nice wine. Not a favorite, and we wouldn't buy it again (just not fruity enough for our tastes, although it had improved), but it kept it from being wasted down the drain. Other experiments with wines we regularly enjoyed made them even better.I'm trying to figure out how to describe what it does to wine, but it's not the same thing with each wine. I can say we've tried it with a handful of wines now and each one has been improved, some by a great measure, some by small, but noticeable, leaps.This has saved us money, too. Not only are we not throwing out wines after one taste (really need to get to some more wine tastings!), but we no longer have to drink an entire bottle at a time. We have not found a wine we like after it's been opened, re-corked and sitting around even as little as one day. So having wine with dinner meant we had to have 2 hefty glasses each throughout the evening, more than either of us wanted, or tossing some wine down the drain. This carafe has allowed us to have one glass of wine with dinner, and come back over the next FEW DAYS and have more that tastes just like it did the first day!If you aren't sold yet, let me just add that the carafe is pretty too. And easy to use.

My wife and I enjoy drinking wine. Wine always tastes better when it's aerated, which can take an hour or longer waiting for it to do in an open bottle or poured in a glass. I have used per glass wine aerators that seem to work fairly well, but they are a bit cumbersome to use for each glass of wine you want to pour. I have used wine decanters, also, but wine can still take a while to aerate, and you need to drink the whole bottle or it goes to waste. What sets this Menu Winebreather Carafe apart from these is you can decant wine into a carafe and accelerate aeration at the same time.This product arrives nicely boxed. The one I ordered was undamaged from shipping. The only parts are the glass carafe, which holds more wine than it appears, a rubber adapter to fit the carafe and a standard wine bottle, and a top to seal the adapter. Instructions provided with this product pertained to an entirely different product (a wine chiller), but it really didn't matter as it is easy to figure out how to use it. The rubber adapter fits into the carafe securely. It has an inner nipple that fits a standard wine bottle. You simply install the adapter, open the wine bottle, and turn the carafe upside down so the adapter nipple can be inserted into the wine bottle. You then turn the entire assembly upside down so the wine can empty into the carafe. It empties slowly, over a minute or two, and wine dribbles along the inner edges of the carafe for aeration. The carafe did not look big enough, but it does hold the entire contents of a standard wine bottle. Once the wine bottle has emptied into the carafe you can remove it and either leave the adapter in the carafe or remove it as well. I find the wine continues to aerate better if you remove the adapter after filling it, but you can pour wine without spilling it easier with the adapter in place. Either way, when you are done drinking wine you can put the adapter in the carafe and seal it with the included top, or you can put the wine bottle back on and empty the contents of the carafe back into the wine bottle. The major advantage to doing this is, if you have a vacuum wine stopper that can pump air out of the wine bottle (manual ones work very well and are inexpensive Vacu Vin Wine Saver Pump with 2 x Vacuum Bottle Stoppers - Black), you can essentially recork your wine bottle and remove air to preserve it longer.Aside from the entertainment of watching wine shower into the carafe, this product does improve the flavor of wine. It seems to aerate well, and the flavor of wine I used with it did seem to improve right away. Compared with other wine decanters I've seen, this Menu Winebreather Carafe is inexpensive and is more functional. If you enjoy drinking wine and want to bring out maximum flavor and smoothness, this product is well worth consideration.

This decanter was actually recommended to me in Napa valley last year on a wine tour. Came home and bought it. Not disappointed. The bottle actually balances on the top. May look a little strange but works. Serve out of the decanter or reverse it back in the bottle.

Here is why I absolutely LOVE this decanter:It does everything a good decanter should do. It decants wine and lets it breathe.But this carafe has a a practical indication: It saves so much room!When having a party, we may easily go through 5 -10 bottles of wine.So: Technically, I would need 5 - 10 carafes, to accommodate.These 5 - 10 Carafes need to be stored between parties.They also take up a lot of room on the counter - and counter space is at a premium even without a party.The right carafe needs to be placed in front of the corresponding bottle, so that everyone knows what's what. (My guests are not always disciplined enough to put "stuff" back where they found it.)Although the above does not keep me awake at night, it is still an annoyance, and luckily it is a thing of the past.We now decanter from bottle to carafe - and back to the bottle. That's it.the wine is aerated, labeled, and ready for use.OK, it looks prettier when serving the wine from a beautiful decanter - but we will learn to live with that.I would recommend this carafe to anyone, and would buy it again if it breaks.