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In a new series of life hack books, Dan Marshall explains how to spend a little but get a lot on a variety of things. One of his most useful hacks is how to make a cheap bottle of vino taste a lot more upmarket. His secret? Put it in a blender for 30 seconds. Apparently, whizzing your cheap wine round in blender helps it aerate and improves the flavour.

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According to Good Morning America, enthusiasts of blender-based wine decanting put red wine in the blender with the idea that the process ages it five years in 30 seconds. Some say that that by exposing young wine to so much air it can quickly soften tannins. Tannins are the naturally occurring compounds that make your wine taste dry. Marcy Roth, the owner of Bacchus and Venus wines in Sausalito, California, also explained: “Decanting was traditionally done to separate the settlements from the wine so you wouldn’t end up with hunks of grape skin in your glass or your teeth.

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“It also opens up the wine and aerates it, allowing more of the flavour and aromas to come forth and to show their most finessed polish side.” The practice, which has gained some traction, is said to work best with red wine. And blending it for just half a minute can help it age five years. But if you’re partial to a bottle of cheap plonk you could give the blender a miss and head to Aldi.

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