How to Deal with Sediment in Wine - CHOW.com

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When you're decanting old wine, skip the sediment. Matt Skinner recommends using a flashlight to illuminate the situation.

[@wesmckay]

Not just the grapes, but it's mostly the dead yeast from fermentation. When I bottle homemade wine, I let it sit in the fridge for a week so it can "clear". When that has happened, I transfer it to other bottles.

[@guitarpope]

its the small particles left from the grapes

[@skillzombie6]

ditto

[@purexwiz]

ill keep that in mind when im old enough to drink....

[@armedbandit]

"Leave the bottle of wine for a couple of hours so that the sediment can fall to the bottle of the wine' ha ha ha

[@droma51090]

its sediment..

[@hugh705]

I would rack it off into a new bottle....