How long is wine good for???

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Karry

Staff Captain
Hope some of our wine "experts" can help me. We are going on the Splendor on Monday. :clap::biggrin: We are allowed one bottle of wine/pp carry on. I found 2 bottles of wine I had forgotten I had in my wine rack. It is Yellow Bird Chardonnay 2012. I have NO IDEA when I bought these bottles...they are screw top and I do remember I bought them to take on a cruise but don't know why I never did...and obviously I have not had them longer than 2 years! Does anyone have any idea if the wine is still good? The wine is CLEAR, not cloudy thru the bottle...I would just hate to open it on board and have it "spoiled." TIA for any help!
 
randy

randy

2nd Officer
The white wine will be fine--in "wine years," 2012 isn't very long ago. Once you open it, keep it chilled 'till you finish it up--should be good chilled (with the cap screwed on) for a few days. If you have a red, you need to evacuate the air before recorking it, as it'll oxidize in a day or so otherwise.
 
K

Karry

Staff Captain
Okay, thank you both! :cheer: For at home, I buy the big jugs of Carlo Rossi or boxed Chablis and mix with lemon lime soda for a wine spritzer, but need something smaller as a carry on! :spyglass:
 
Donna - dsw

Donna - dsw

Staff Captain
also - go to the fruit section on ship and get some Strawberries or any fruit to put in your wine - makes it taste really good - especially with white wine!
 
K

Karry

Staff Captain
That's a great idea, Donna. Thanks. I can make my own Sangria! :thumbup: :eek:k:
 
MisterD21

MisterD21

If you take me serious, it's your problem
as with most alcoholic beverages.... as long as the wine does not come into contact with oxygen, temperature fluctuations, light, it will keep for hundreds of years, if not longer if it does not evaporate during that time period. most whiskey's, wines, and tquilla's actually are better if they are allowed to age for 10-15 years...although, there are differing views on weather longer aging improves the quality longer than 20 years.

so yes karry, as long as it has remained sealed(and i often wonder about screw caps being able to keep a seal long term)you should be fine. i am assuming you had the bottles stored laying on their sides, so the wine stayed in contact with the cap. if so if there was any problem with the seal you would find dried wine residue on the cap or neck of the bottle.
 
BSeabob

BSeabob

Forum Manager
Staff member
All this talk about wine........some reds will keep for quite a while and get better. Some won't. Most whites today don't get a lot better than the day you buy them. Most whites will time out after several yrs.....and usually you get what you pay for same as cruising.
your two from 2012 should be downed right away.

Cheers
 
randy

randy

2nd Officer
BSeabob said:
...your two from 2012 should be downed right away.

Cheers
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Sound advice. Drink wine frequently and quickly. Preferably, someone else's wine...

For a definitive review of Australian wines, I always defer to Monty Python!
Australian Table Wines
A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a
pity, as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palette,
but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.

"Black Stump Bordeaux" is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured
Burgundy, whilst a good "Sydney Syrup" can rank with any of the world's
best sugary wines.

"Chateau Bleu", too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and
its lingering afterburn.

"Old Smokey, 1968" has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret,
whilst the Australian wino society thouroughly recommends a 1970 "Coq du
Rod Laver", which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: 8 bottles
of this, and you're really finished -- at the opening of the Sydney
Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an
hour.

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is "Perth Pink". This is a
bottle with a message in, and the message is BEWARE!. This is not a
wine for drinking -- this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

Another good fighting wine is "Melbourne Old-and-Yellow", which is
particularly heavy, and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

Quite the reverse is true of "Chateau Chunder", which is an Appelachian
controle, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation -- a fine wine
which really opens up the sluices at both ends.

Real emetic fans will also go for a "Hobart Muddy", and a prize winning
"Cuiver Reserve Chateau Bottled Nuit San Wagga Wagga", which has a
bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.
 
bob

bob

Community Manager Part Time Dinosaur
Staff member
Drink no wine before its time..........................
IT'S TIME

And yup Randy, some mighty fine wine comes from down under..
Sheep ain't the only thing they have to offer
 
K

Karry

Staff Captain
All very interesting. Thanks for sharing! I know there are a lot of people who are wine conniseurs (sp??) and I know Denise and her DD'es love to go to wine tastings...as I mentioned I am a jug or box wine with whatever lemon lime soda is on sale "wine spritzer" drinker. Works for me!!! :eek:k: I buy the small "exquisite wines" just for carry on because I CAN. I love Donna's suggestion of putting some fruit in and I will try that. I would LOVE to have a nice glass of red wine at the end of a day, but if I so much as walk by someone who has a glass I will get a head ache!:bang::shrug: I just LOVE the smell of red wine, but for some reason, my brain doesn't! :thumbdown: Thank you all for the wine education. All my family and a lot of friends love their wines and I will share with them what you have offered! CHEERS!
 
Funnel

Funnel

Food and Beverage Manager- Special Contributor
Hmmm... how long is wine good for? :scratch:

I would say maximum one hour, maybe only 15 minutes if you share the bottle with others... :biggrin:
In general it lasts from the nose to the tail of the moose - if you are really hungry! :whistle:

/Erik
 
Krazy Kruizers

Krazy Kruizers

Holland America Specialist
A few years ago a friend gave us a bottle of wine. We put it in the cubboard and forgot about it. Somehow it kept get showed further back. I know it was about 3 years later I was cleaning out the cubboard and found it. We opened it for dinner and it was just fine.
 
K

Karry

Staff Captain
Krazy Kruizers said:
A few years ago a friend gave us a bottle of wine. We put it in the cubboard and forgot about it. Somehow it kept get showed further back. I know it was about 3 years later I was cleaning out the cubboard and found it. We opened it for dinner and it was just fine.
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That is what I think happened with these bottles. I bought them for a cruise as carry on and for some reason didn't drink them, brought them home and forgot about them. I was getting ready for our cruise on Monday and found them. I always buy the screw cap for cruises because I can open it myself and don't have to worry about corkage fee and/or bringing a corkscrew! :cheer::whistle: Thanks again for the advice everyone! :thankyou:
 


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