Red Wine Food
MC
or something?---the cork is tightly tucked in, though). I hope to make most
of it without kissing it goodbye. Would you suggest any recipe that can use
it up? Such as meat, poultry,fish or dessert, if any? (preferably with
recipe or links---I'll shop tomorrow the things that go with it)
Thanks
Mike
Aaron N. Tubbs
I don't know if it's been in the fridge or not, but either way you're
not going to want to *drink* it anymore. You could cook with it, but
I'd let it go fully to red wine vinegar, if it's not there already, and
then use it as a vinegar. My girlfriend's mother has been pouring the
last few drops of her husband's reds into a bottle of red wine vinegar
for over a decade now, and has had a great blend because of it, fwiw.
Aaron
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st...@temple.edu
Will it spoil? I just finished taking a wine tasting course two days ago.
This course is the second I have taken from John McNulty, a local wine
expert who has his own wine store and weekly radio show. John says that
the typical wine goes bad after 78 hours, even if refridgerated. My
opinion is that if you taste the wine and you like it, then its perfectly
fine. The wine will certainly be safe to drink, but possibly not enjoyable
because it might have started to turn to vinegar. One suggestion that I
learned in the first wine tasting course is after using some wine out of
a bottle, pour it into a smaller bottle, but a bottle that's big enough
to hold the wine without allowing too much air to get inside the bottle.
This will preserve the wine for another three days. Keep repeating this
with smaller and smaller bottles until the wine is gone. Exposure to air
is what helps to taint the flavor of wine so reducing the air exposure
helps retain the taste of the wine.
Alan Zelt
Wine, left to its own, does not turn to vinegar.
--
Alan
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and
avoid the people, you might better stay home."
--James Michener
Thomas A Bruno
st...@temple.edu wrote on 4/14/02 9:09 AM:
> One suggestion that I
> learned in the first wine tasting course is after using some wine out of
> a bottle, pour it into a smaller bottle, but a bottle that's big enough
> to hold the wine without allowing too much air to get inside the bottle.
> This will preserve the wine for another three days. Keep repeating this
> with smaller and smaller bottles until the wine is gone. Exposure to air
> is what helps to taint the flavor of wine so reducing the air exposure
> helps retain the taste of the wine.
Another device to save a half bottle of wine is a vacuum cork, available at
many liquor stores. Its a rubber wine bottle stopper with a slit in it that
acts as a one-way valve. It comes with a little pump to extract most of the
air, leaving the half bottle of wine vacuumed out. Under ten bucks with two
corks, extras can be purchased, and it works great to at least give a couple
of weeks extra life to that half bottle.
--
Thomas A. Bruno, Champaign, Illinois, USA
http://www.tombruno.com
Ana
one to post a message. So please let me offer this: one can buy an
amount of clear glass 'beads', like solid, tiny marbles. I never owned
these but they are sold for the purpose of forcing air from an opened
bottle of wine. Just funnel them in untill the wine comes close to the
top. Easy way to clean them when the wine is gone: pour into collander
or strainer and rinse well, shake and let them just dry well in it.
Also, red wine often needs to breathe, or to volatilize away some of
the bitter tannin, before optimum drinking pleasure: but let this
breathing happen to wine you have poured into the wineglasses or have
decanted into a widish-mouthed decanter for this wine that going to be
consumed this evening, for instance. Keep the cork on the bottle of
any wine that's going to wait to be drunk another time...the tannin
helps stabilize it. I have pretty good luck by doing this, keeping the
bottle in a pretty cool place, and finishing it up in 2 or 3 days.
Mike Berger
you'll get it back the next day for re-use!
Mike Berger
Mark Gibson wrote:
> In cmi.consumer.gourmand Mike Berger <ber...@shout.net> wrote:
> >That's a pretty good idea! And if you accidentally swallow a marble,
> >you'll get it back the next day for re-use!
>
> Something you've proven by repeated experimentation using yourself as
> the test subject for years, no doubt.
> <evil grin>
>
> Regards,
> Mark "thinking of a scene from _Gone in 60 Seconds_" Gibson
>
> --
>
> "Windows(tm) is a perfect name for products that are often broken."
> -- Mark Gibson
>
> [BTW: Microsloth may be losing it's trademark on "Windows" RSN.]
Mike Berger
marbles jammed somewhere, or is this just your juvenile way to
show that you like me? I don't think we've ever met. Maybe you
have me confused with someone else.
Mark Gibson wrote:
> No, I expect you'd eat moss-covered rocks with your red wine.
>
> Regards,
> Mark Gibson