Why expose wine to air?

Why expose wine to air?

To let wine breathe or aerate is as the wine has been corked up in this bottle and you pull the cork on it and you pour it in, it is sort of, to me, it is sort of like foreplay. You want it to be able to show. It is sort of like perfume, you want it to air. You want to kind of smell all these things. The rose has to have a chance to grow. Do you decant things? Do you let things breathe that are young versus old? All of this is a judgment call, but I think everything should be decanted. I think everything should have its chance. It's Egyptian cotton. You want to touch and feel these things. You want things to aerate. You want to smell. You want it to expose itself. The more air, the more the molecules come up and you can smell it.