Originally Posted by
Gaucho100K
If you have a wine cooler... you need to allocate some shelf space to fit your decanter... actually the duck style decanters are the best since they will usually fit in half a shelf space, provided you place it on one of the racks that is somewhat taller than average.... the larger magnum decanters, while very pretty are a pain in the rear for this because most of the time they will require you to have a half empty cooler to be able to do this.
For those that have a proper cellar... its fine to just pour & decant and leave the carrafe in the cellar until you are ready to go. Actually, as long as you are good with your timing, your normal housefold refrigetaror also works, but make sure to cover the decanter mouth with plastic wrap so that the odors of the refrigerator dont come into play.
My wine cooler isn't big enough to fit even a duck style decanter, plus I hate those kinds anyways. My storage facility is a good 10 miles away so that kind of negates using it, as tempting as it is
Next time I'll chill the decanter beforehand, as well as the wine, and then use the refrigerator method and see how that turns out.