How long can you store wine?

[Thomas]

The Duck Walk "wines" you bought are on the sweet side. (I put the word wines in parenthesis because, although I am unsure of what the white and the Aphrodite are produced from, I know that the boysonberry and blueberry products are not technically wine, but that is a whole other subject you can find by searching a few of the past entries on this board).

I suspect it is the sweetness of the products you bought that helps you overcome the aversion to the alcohol taste to which you refer, although alcohol is not so much a taste as it is a sensation (heat).

But to your main point: one way to look at the subject of holding wine is to decide how much you will consume in a certain period of time, say one month, and then buy enough to last that long. Nothing you buy, unless it is quite old to begin with, is going to be a problem for you in that time frame.

Collecting wine is an expensive habit for those who know what to collect, how to store it, and for how long. For those who do not know those things, collecting wine is not only expensive, it is usually wasteful.