help with wine...

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4/22/12 5:02 P

Yep, you really will only have any pleasure in drinking that if it is less than a week and a half old and stored properly...

HOWEVER: in my world you had a prime bottle of cooking wine there. That would be sloshed into some pasta sauce!

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4/22/12 4:15 P

It probably smells like vinegar and whatever the green lifeforms are.

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4/22/12 3:45 P

"is it still good to drink? It made my stopper get some green stuff on it"

I would not drink something that spawned green stuff!

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4/22/12 2:02 P

once opened you generally need to drink wine within the week or make vinegar with it. some wines you might have a bit more leeway on, but most are a bit shorter. if you really don't drink much wine, buy the smaller bottles. but if you must buy the large bottles, store the wine resealed as best you can [either with the cork or one of those specially designed stoppers] in the fridge and just bring what you're going to drink to room temperature [for the reds].

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4/22/12 1:54 P

I just wanted to know a general question about it. I am not much of a wine drinker, so I have no idea what to make of this. I opened a bottle of red wine at Christmas, hardly anyone drank any, I tucked it away, I was just clearing out my shelf of many mysterious drinks (beer, vodka, schnapps, etc, most I do drink). Anyways, since it's been open since Christmas day, is it still good to drink? It made my stopper get some green stuff on it, I am more familiuar to vodka, crown royal that it's still good to drink even years after it was opened, but wines for some reason, I don't know if it's like vodka or pop. Leave pop open long enough, it will go flat.

I wasn't sure, so I did dump it out, but still, if anyone has an opinion on this, it would be great.