Wine Expiration

[Innkeeper]

Hi TI, and welcome to the Wine Board. Hopfully you at least put the cork back first. If not, it may be gone already. If you did, a day or two.

You need to get a half (375 ml) of wine and keep the empty bottle. Then get ahold of a decent stopper. Next time you get a full bottle, pour half of it in the half bottle to the top, stick in the stopper and refrigerate. This will now hold four or five days. If the wine is red, let it warm up a little before serving the second time around.

Wines, even of the same type, vary greatly in holding ability. Andrea Immer's "2004 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone" gives you holding ability of over 600 widely distributed and popular wines.