Re-corking

[Innkeeper]

I'm very reluctant to keep opened wine very long. For the last month or so, my wife has been taken off alcohol among other things because of reflux and diabetes. The reflux is hopefully temporary, and the diabetes we can handle easily with diet.

Anyhow, I'm down to a half bottle a day. I found a screw top half bottle of wine in the local emporium, and use it for the other half bottle. I rinse it out thoroughly after use, and fill it full up to top with the new half bottle, and finish the other half with dinner. I plan for two consecutive meals with the same wine. It doesn't always work out perfectly, but in this game, like horeshoes and handgranades, close is acceptable. Tonight I had pork chops with Riesling, and tomorrow will have the other half with grouper.