Is this wine still good?!
this is what I have:
Beringer, White Merlot 2001 (California)
Black Oak, Fume Blank Vintage 2003 (California)
Barossa Peter Lehmann GSM 2003 (Australia)
I think the last one was around $50 when I bought it 3 years ago.
They were in box in my closet all the time, which is dark and cool. If anyone knows more about wine and if those would still be good to open and drink, please let me know.
Thanks
Answers: I was clearing out my closet and found a few bottles of wine that I probably have for a couple of years. I was wondering if they would be good to drink.
this is what I have:
Beringer, White Merlot 2001 (California)
Black Oak, Fume Blank Vintage 2003 (California)
Barossa Peter Lehmann GSM 2003 (Australia)
I think the last one was around $50 when I bought it 3 years ago.
They were in box in my closet all the time, which is dark and cool. If anyone knows more about wine and if those would still be good to open and drink, please let me know.
Thanks
I'd open the Beringer & smell it (having never seen a white Merlot!). If OK, I'd make a chicken casserole with half of it whilst drinking the rest as I made it.
The Black Oak - I'll pass on that. Again Californian & not a favourite.
The Peter Lehmann, I'm assuming that's 'Grenache, Shiraz, Merlot', should be really superb!
BTW, I *do* hope these bottles have lain horizontal for all these years. If not, go to 'plan B' and have another few bottles up your sleeve.
Good luck!
I'm not a know-it-all about wine, but I do know I love wine, and I've had some bottles that haven't seen the graces of a cool, dark closet for years! I imagine that you'll just have to open them up and see. Wine turns into vinegar, basically, when it goes "bad"...so if you open a bottle and it tastes like vinegar - or just not good at all, then I'd pour it down the drain. There might even be some "flakes" at the bottom of the bottle - sediment, basically. This has happened to some of my wine. Like I said, I don't know how or why that happens...if it's good or bad...but I do know they make special wine pourers that have screens on them because of the sediments in wine... At any rate, I've found that those "flakes" don't make a bit of difference.
Bottom line: try it and see...
Bottoms up!
All three of them should be just fine. As long as they were not already opened of course.
Although, Beringer...lol CHEAP wine! Black Oak is the house wine that I use in the bar I work at...its not bad, decent. That Barossa should be pretty good though.
Sure there may be even better now wines age gracefully.
They certainly be good still