What is a Wine Aerator?
A wine aerator or wine aerator pourer is a wine accessory that used to aerate wine or in other words, help a wine breathe. A major portion of a wines taste is it’s “nose” (as wine connoisseurs say) or simply put, the wines ability to give of its aromatics. This is why you see wine tasting connoisseurs “twirling” a wine in its glass before they taste it. They are doing this to aerate or decant the wine. This allows the wine to give of its aromatics and help to improve the texture, nose, and taste of a wine. 
Red wine is what most wine experts say needs to be decanted or aerated, although white wine aerators are also available and are designed specifically to bring out the “nose” of a white wine as opposed to a red wine aerator. There are several different styles of wine aerators available.
As a matter of fact Vinturi, who is a very popular brand of wine aerators, has both a vinturi red wine aerator and a vinturi white wine aerator available. Vinturi states that there white wine aerator is designed specifically for aerating white wines.
For those who want both a Vinturi Red and White wine aerator Set is available that includes one of each.
I bought Vinturi’s Red Wine Aerator and will take my chances using it on white wines as well.
How Wine Aerators Works
Wine aeration or decanting is a simple concept. The wine needs to be exposed to the open air. This can be done with a traditional decanter or a large open glass type of container. With a wine decanter you carefully pour your wine into the decanter and let it set for a period of time to let the wine start to breath. Most wine experts say you need to let anywhere from 20 minutes to 1 hour to decant wine. Another rule of thumb for aerating wine is 5 minutes for every year the wine has been aged.
Decanting older wines is also done to separate any sediment that may be present in the wine.
The other method is to pour your wine through a Wine aerator. These “pour though” wine aerators simply draw in air as its poured or increase the wines surface area as its being poured. The Soiree wine aerator and the Rabbit wine aerator are examples of this style of wine aerator. The Soiree and Rabbit aerators are inserted into the wine bottle opening before pouring your wine.
The Vinturi wine aerator, the decantus wine aerator, and the Vino2 wine aerator are examples of wine aerators that you hold and pour the wine through for aeration to occur. Vinturi has a wine aerator stand or tower available to free up a hand while pouring through the aerator.
What’s the Best Wine Aerator?
Determining the best wine aerator is fairly subjective. You first need to decide what style of wine aerator you want. You can choose either the wine aerator pourer style (the aerator you insert into the wine bottle opening and then pour through. A small problem with this style of wine aerator is that on bottles with screw off cap, the opening is slightly larger and will not work with many of these “in the bottle wine aerators.
The most popular brands of these wine pourer aerators include:
• Soiree Wine Aerator
• Metrokane Rabbit Wine Aerating Pourer
• Vino-Air Wine Aerator and Pourer
The other and more popular wine aerator style is the pour through style. This style of wine aerator requires you to simply hold the aerator as you pour your wine through it and into your wine glass. This style eliminates any problems you can potentially have with the wine aerators you insert into the wine bottle.
Some examples of these wine aerators include:
• Vinturi Essential Wine Aerator
• Decantus Wine Decanting System
• Respirer Wine Aerator
Wine Aerator Reviews
To determine which aerator to buy, I spent some time looking at several wine aerator reviews. I decided I wanted the pour through type of wine aerator so I went to Amazon and simply typed in “wine aerator review” and started looking at the star rating and read both the good and bad reviews.
One thing I determined pretty quickly was the vinturi essential wine aerator had around 500 reviews and all of these vinturi wine reviews averaged out to 4.7 stars out of 5. This is a pretty good review rating, especially when I compared its review to the other wine aerator. I’ve heard that about 1 person out of 100 will leave a review on Amazon so if that were the case, about 5000 vinturi wine aerators have been sold on Amazon. After seeing the average wine review for these vinturi wine aerators was so high, I felt pretty safe buying this particular wine aerator on Amazon. Not to mention I could get this wine aerator with free shipping if I selected the 5 – 8 day shipping option.
Where to Buy Wine Aerators on Sale?
Like I mentioned above I found out you could get the vinturi wine aerator with free shipping on Amazon. I personally do quite a bit of shopping on Amazon. I’ve never had a bad experience and it was easy to find the vinturi wine aerator best price buy simply looking at all the different. So having all of these vendors completing for your business it’s just like finding a wine aerator for sale. I think the wine aerator I selected was just over $25 it qualified for the free shipping.
Here a link to the Amazon Wine Aerators that you can get with free shipping: Vinturi Wine aerator free shipping