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[fallen steppe]

Please be patient

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[ripe river]

That's right.
By the way, it's l'opération, not la opération.

[last thicket]

ah yes. Thank you for the correction.

But I still cannot digest this sentence. how is 's'il' - which is in the middle of the sentence - after en revanche, and une opération bien plus délicate, and s’il est particulièrement fragile still referring to 'le vin' at the beginning of the sentence ?

[twilit gate]

what do you mean?
"Decanting an old wine is, on the other hand, an even more delicate operation, because it risks ruining it completely, if it's particularly fragile"

confusingly in English we just use it for both, so it should be even more clear in french

the only thing is that while we could put the dependent clause "if it's particularly fragile" in the same position as the french, we try to avoid it more than in french