White wine shelf life?

Fire_Fox

greenbee wrote: »

Which is why you should always store wine on its side (and the screw tops and plastic corks haven't really taken off in mainstream wine production yet, although the new world, NZ in particular, is using them a lot - which I guess is good for the spanish cork oak forests, even if not for the wine!)

Have a look at these vintage charts for ideas as to when things should be drunk by!

I mainly buy supermarket white, so it's usually had a period of being stored upright! Almost everything I buy has a screwcap now, but then I rarely opt for French (expensive) and never Aussie (don't like it ). I buy quite a lot of NZ, a fair bit of South American. I still find the screwcap thing wierd as it always only used to be on real rubbish!

greenbee

Fire_Fox wrote: »

I mainly buy supermarket white, so it's usually had a period of being stored upright! Almost everything I buy has a screwcap now, but then I rarely opt for French (expensive) and never Aussie (don't like it ). I buy quite a lot of NZ, a fair bit of South American. I still find the screwcap thing wierd as it always only used to be on real rubbish!

Supermarket stuff is generally good for drinking now! I visited my brother in NZ a few years ago (he was working out there), and they were really evangelical about the screw caps. I'm not sure how they rate environmentally compared to plastic ones (I have a deep loathing of anything plastic, so can't be objective on this one!), but I'm sure it has to be better than shipping cork half way round the world before shipping it back to Europe! I suppose we should really drink English wine

Fire_Fox

You know so much the wider ethical issues, Greenbee, you put me to shame!