How long does wine keep when opened?

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I have a lock and lock box that I keep sliced onions in and they never smell at all in the freezer.I usually buy a few when I see them on the offer and spend a weepy half hour slicing and dicing.

Mrs_Bones

If I'm batch freezing stuff from the garden like beans that will be in the freezer for a few months I do blanche them but if it's just some left over veg that will be use up within a couple of weeks I don't bother, I just bag them up and put in the freezer.

squirrelchops

Thanks all. Some excellent tips there.

Pretani

I like my vegetables quite crunchy. The last time i tried freezing carrots and onions they went all limp when defrosted, they must need blast frozen to keep them firm.

Does blanching them before freezing keep them firm?

anyone know how i could blast freeze these vegetables at home? I would love to pre-wash and cut a 'shed-load' to freeze.

Patchwork_Quilt

JackieO wrote: »

I have a lock and lock box that I keep sliced onions in and they never smell at all in the freezer.I usually buy a few when I see them on the offer and spend a weepy half hour slicing and dicing.

Do you have a food processor?

I never blanch veg either, but I think they would keep for longer if I did. Fortunately, it's never too long before they get tipped into a casserole or something.

carlislelass

I`ve never blanched before freezing, just cut up, placed on a tray and put in freezer until frozen then bagged up.

Justcoll

This goes for both unopened and opened bottles.

For unopened - how long will a bottle of reasonable quality red keep for?

For unopened, assuming it's been sealed with a vacuum stopper, how long would you keep it for 1) drinking and 2) cooking?

Any advice appreciated (apart from suck it and see);) I'm thinking safety rather than taste.


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thriftlady_2

Unopened wine keeps forever.

Once opened it keeps about 2 days, but I'm not sure if that's a taste or safety thing -I would imagine it is taste.

Nicki

Unopened wines - depend very much on the quality of the grapes/kind of wine when bottled. You can't necessarily tell this from the price. Some red wines are meant to be laid down, and would easily keep 20 years+, some are meant to be drunk young (eg Beaujolais nouveau) and would start to deteriorate within a year. Also it varies from year to year even for the same grape from the same vineyard depending on how good a year it has been for winemaking. A good wine guide would probably help you judge. A wine which has been kept for a little too long will not be as good to drink but there is quite a large degree of latitude before it actually becomes undrinkable.

For opened wines, it depends on how you seal them, and also on the wine itself. For a wine which needs a lot of time to breathe before it tastes at its best, I've drunk it up to 2 weeks after opening when its been sealed with a vacuum pump. Other wines which don't need time to breathe would only last a few days or so. If you are sealing it with the cork, or its a screw top bottle, you should aim to drink it within 48 hours in my view.

pol

I agree with Nicki. Unopened it will keep for about a year or two roughly.

Once opened, if you can't drink it within a couple of days, you can freeze it in ice cube trays and use it for cooking.

pol