Question about wine?!
Question about wine?
you always here about people having one or two glasses of wine a night, but I was wondering how to store the left over wine and how long is it good for after you open the bottle?
Answers:
Wine oxidizes, so just plugging up the bottle doesn't work. I recommend either shelling out $20 and getting a Concerto, which sucks the air out of the bottle using special stoppers, or Private Preserve, or some other argon-gas spray that forces out the oxygen before you quickly jam in a tightly fitting cork or stopper. There are about 5 glasses per bottle, so you should have it around for a few days. How long it will stay fresh is another question. A lot of things will change this. It should last a couple days very well if you get a Concerto or argon gas spray, as long as you don't leave it around on your counter open while you're sipping away. Open, pour, re-close.
Honestly, as a trained sommelier, I'm supposed to tell people to buy bottles, but as a reasonable person with both a tongue AND a budget, I recommend a GOOD, high-quality box of wine. Hardys makes fairly descent stuff, as do Black Box, Killer Juice, Sawmill Creek, and French Cross. If you're drinking for health reasons, I'd say go with a nice Shiraz from Hardys. Drinkable, hearty table wine. Just don't go with Franzia, or any of the other 5 litres/$10 boxes. They taste horrid and aren't as healthy.
In vino veritas! :)
Left over wine should be kept in a glass bottle, firmly shut with a tap and refrigerated. That should do for a week or even longer. When it tastes like acid or vinegar, get rid of it.
but the cork back in it!
Use a Vacuvin stopper or equivalent and keep upright in the refridgerator. The pump removes the air from the bottle. The wine should be good for about 3 days. Drink it up or use it for cooking or make a wine cooler drink.
Vac-u-vin is a great system, though don't make the common mistake of using it on bubbly wines as it will suck the bubbles out almost instantly.
I use a rubber stopper and enjoy the change of flavours over two or three days, especially with young wines. Hot weather will kill a wine in a day though. Either way any leftovers, which are rare, go in the cooking.
re-cork the bottle, put in fridge on its side to keep the cork wet. should keep for a week. This holds true for both red and white. I work at a wine & food museum in Napa, California and we do this with all of our wine from the tasting room table. And a friend who works at Luna also does the same thing in their tasting room. For reds, just be sure you remove from the fridge about 20 - 30 min prior to serving to get the wine to warm up to room temp.
A red wine will stay decent 2-3 days after opening. It does not need to be refrigerated.
A white wine will last about a week in the fridge.
Really, all you need to do it recork it.
After these time frames, the wine will start to degrade. It will not spoil like milk does, but the taste will start to break down and become less pleasant.
Hope this helps.
if it is white wine then it has to be firmly shut and in the fridge , if it is red wine it will last a long time on a counter or something , just make sure it is sealed