carafe

Carafes

A carafe (from Arabic غرافة, DMG ġarrāfa  'water lifter wheel with shovels') is a table vessel made of clay, cut glass or crystal glass , which usually has a bottle-like shape. The volume of conventional carafes is around one liter, but is not standardized .

use

Carafes are often used to decant wine to remove unwanted sediment. The transferring of young wines without sediment, also known as decanting, is used, on the other hand, to bring the wine into contact with atmospheric oxygen, whereby the term "carafing" would be technically correct. Decanter carafes are also known as decanters.

In addition to the classic wine carafe, there are also jugs for lemonade made of various materials.

Pouring from a carafe is also known as serving .

Executions

Carafes are available as simple objects of daily use, but also lavishly decorated as table decorations.

Finishes made of cut or hand-blown glass, mostly crystal glass , in conjunction with real silver or a silver-plated mount are particularly demanding in terms of craftsmanship . The carafe with silver mounts had their peak between 1830 and 1930. These are vessels with a glass body and a silver or silver-plated mount. A mount is understood to mean the border of the neck, a handle and a lid. The advantage of this type of carafe is that there are no more drops because the metal rim cuts off the drop.

From 1930 there was a decline in the production of such carafes. Original pieces from that time are rare and sought-after collector's items. The fact that such pieces were not made before 1830 can probably be explained by the fact that jugs made of other materials were more likely to be used for wine up to that time.

Today, glass carafes are mainly offered in two versions: as a decanter for decanting wine and as a storage vessel for liqueurs and spirits.

• Carafes
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  Crystal carafe

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  Carafe for red wine as a decanter with bottle and wine glass

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  Wine carafe, circa 1900 Norsk Folkemuseum

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  Carafe for water or country wine

Web links

Wiktionary: Carafe  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Commons : Carafes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.karaffensammler.at - pages of a collector with lots of pictures and information (non-commercial, English)
• www.claretjugs.com - The Kent collection: Private collection (non-commercial, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nutrition: Decanting and Caraffing - What's the Difference? on Focus online March 9, 2012, accessed April 14, 2014.