Following trends in America on any subject can be a recipe for motion sickness. As anyone who has spent time observing what is ‘trending’ on Twitter can attest, the American zeitgeist ebbs and flows at a rapid clip. But my job is to keep my finger on the pulse of this throbbing artery, and give you a glimpse of what currently engages the minds and glassware of my big country. So without further ado, here is my finger in the wind of the American wine scene.

Hyper decanting
To call the ridiculous notion of putting one’s wine through a blender before drinking a current trend would certainly be over-stating the case, but for all the disdain this barbaric practice has earned among wine cognoscenti, hyper-decanting seems to have captured the whim, if not the imagination, of a certain segment of the wine-drinking public….

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