Are wine aerators worth all fuss?
Rebecca Rethore, Somerville’s own small business owner and wine blogger at Pour Favor, pops over every Monday to give Wicked readers a taste of what’s what in the wine world. She specializes in making wine simply approachable and fun. It’s just what she does: Happiness Uncorked! Aerators seemed to be The Big Thing over the holidays. Whether considered the perfect gift or the best party trick going, I was entertained to find the original aerator, produced by Vinum, on hand at every holiday party I attended. I even received Metrokane’s Rabbit aerator as a gift! All of this enthusiasm got me thinking: is this little gadget worth all the fuss and, if so, which of these two products is superior? For both the Vinum and Metrokane products, the technical design to promote accelerated aeration is the same. Engineer Brian Prevo pointed out the concept is based on Bernouli’s principle. “The aerator is designed to have wine flow through a constriction; this causes it to flow quite quickly through
