Oxidation can be a problem, but yes, if the wine has been sealed it shouldn't deteriorate to the point where it's unusable for cooking. I'm too much of a wine snob to drink most wines, because I make my own, but since cooking releases some of the ethers anyway from the heat it's not a problem to use older wine for cooking. Both of these have been stored in a fridge with tightly sealed caps. And there are wines I'd use to cook with I'd never drink, like the cooking wine my ex made. It's a depression era recipe for an onion potato wine that called for an inordinate amount of sugar (we suspect it's a typo) so we had to use distillers yeast to get it palatable, as it was too strong and too sweet with a regular cotes de blank yeast. The ex did it specifically as a marinade wine, so each split bottle has a sprig of rosemary and a garlic clove in it too. I have one bottle left, and I'm saving it for wild game, like quail or dove.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Blaine Deutscher > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 2:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CnD] Cooking with Wine question > > what's wrong if the whine is closed since 2010? I thought the older > the whine the better it gets. As long as there isn't any air getting > to the whine the longer you age it the better it is. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Colleen" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; "RJ" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 12:15 PM > Subject: Re: [CnD] Cooking with Wine question > > > If the wine has been open since 2010, I would toss it. If you don't > want to > drink it, don't cook with it. hth > > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
