Iittala Glassware Dining and Entertaining Iittala Decanter - Pure pleasure. A wine carafe has two functions. It should allow the wine to breathe, in order to release the flavours and bouquet that have been locked inside the wine; and it should let light ignite the ruby-Red brilliance of a vintage wine. Citterio and Nguyen have created a mouth-blown decanter with every element Reduced to its purest, most essential functional purpose. With lines this pure and well-balanced, the decanter stands perfectly together with our various wine glasses.