Receiving bottles of wine when you don't drink. Was I rude?

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Is it rude to use a bottle of wine that you've been gifted,for cooking?

I don't drink alcohol at all,but I do occasionally cook with it.And was recently.very kindly.given a bottle of wine by guests. I thanked them as it was very kind of them,but when I mentioned to another friend that I was going to use it in a meal. She said she'd be offended if someone did that with a bottle she'd given them.

Is it really so rude?

It could have been an expensive bottle of wine, or more likely it was not all that expensive. I don't think it matters. You could argue your gift giver was rude for gifting wine to someone who didn't drink.

You could argue that if you were as weird as your friend

Yes beef stroganoff. And yes it's bloody autocorrect in complete bastard mode again.

I don't waste wine. I use a bottle up over months weeks.

Blimey it's wine, not platinum.

When I give a gift, I hope the person who I bought it with has pleasure from it.

Tbh I think in food a decent wine is better as it improves the flavour.

It could have been an expensive bottle of wine, or more likely it was not all that expensive. I don't think it matters.

Friends of ours have a very rich brother (captain of industry type of thing) who collects seriously expensive wine. He once gave them a bottle of Petrus, which I understand is worth humungous amounts of money.

Anyway they do like a drop of red so they opened it one night to drink in front of the telly but then discovered that they hated it. So they re-corked it, put it in the fridge and subsequently used it in a coq au vin

I believe they later found out (on a visit to the brother's house) that the wine should have been opened for hours to breathe before attempting to drink it and that may have been why they found it so nasty. I don't suppose they ever 'fessed up to him that they had used one of the most expensive wines in the world for a nice casserole!

No that's what I do as we don't drink or it gets recycled to someone else as a gift x

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I think that fundamentally I'm not that impressed by wine. I do see what you are saying, but it is just fermented grapes

I don't drink any alcohol either, and in the very unlikely scenario that someone gave me a bottle of wine, I'd probably use it for cooking as well.

I don't go to parties or anything, so the only other place for any wine here is down the sink, so it would be better off being used for cooking.

People saying to drink it rather than cook with it are definitely drinkers rather than food fans.

Use only wines in your cooking that you would drink. Never, never use any wine that you WOULD NOT DRINK! If your do not like the taste of a wine, you will not like the dish you choose to use it in.

God I admire your restraint.

I would cook with left over wine but I never have any leftovers.

of course it's not rude though op. your friend is daft.

There are recipes that call for expensive wine though...

Oh goodness your friend is ignorant. Does she think there is stuff called "cooking wine"

If you want to cook with it there's not the slightest reason not to.