Here are some tips on wine decanting thanks to Wineintro.com:
Decanting is all about allowing the wine to breathe. Air getting across a good surface area of a wine can bring out its aromas. You want that wine to be giving off aromas! If it’s not releasing flavors into the air, it’s going to taste like strange water. You can usually let the wine sit in the decanter for 1/2 to 1 hour before you drink it. You’ll see how its flavor changes over the evening as you drink.
There is of course a point at which the air causes more damage than good. If you let the wine sit out for say 8 hours, it will warm up to your ambient room temperature which in modern times is 70F or more, which is awful for wine flavor. When the French talked of Room Temperature in the 1800s, they meant in the 50s! Also, wine + air = vinegar.
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