To ask why so much wine is off now when you open it?

[JontyDoggle37]

I’m really fed up. Keeping buying decent is bottles of white (£8-£10 bracket) and finding they’re full of small bubbles, have basically started to ferment, and taste really sharp and acids, plus of you actually drink it give you a much worse hangover. It’s inly been the last 2-3 years I’ve noticed this happening more and this year especially ( Tesco and Sainsbury purchases, not own brand but recognised makes). It’s really pissing me off I want to enjoy my wine!!! It can’t be the screw tops because they’ve been around for ages and this hardly ever used to happen...

Bugger that. I buy my wine in ALDI and Lidl for under £5 and it's far superior to Tesco and Sainsbury’s wine. Never been off.
As pp, Coop fair trade wine is 👌🏼

I quite often buy cheap wine for around 8-10 pounds and I haven't found this.

Spot the twat 😂 EdWinchester yes I'm looking at you

I buy white wine in this price bracket and I've never once had anything 'off'

Never had anything off, apart from a couple of times in pubs/restaurants where it has been corked. Seems like there could be an issue with where you are buying/storing?

We tend to avoid buying wine with corks in these days. Gone are the days when you only got cheap wine in screwtop bottles.
OH is a wine enthusiast and really rates the premium supermarket wine brands - Tesco Finest, Co-op Irresistible etc.

The third point, as has already been pointed out, is how you store it. If it has corks in it. It needs to be stored on its side. It also needs to be stored somewhere where the temperature is constant. The kitchen is probably the worst place to store wine.

I've never bought an off wine.

There's no secondary fermentation in wines. What wine variety do you buy red/white - we'll give you some tips.

I used to sell wine in large quantities commercially, don't buy a £10 bottle, they're no better than a £5 bottle they just have fancier labels and more spent on branding.
This sounds like a storage temperature issue. Try another shop it could be the warehouse at your local store getting too hot

I would echo ElectricOrgan. My mum is allergic to sulfites and she says it makes wine taste fizzy and sour or bitter to her. She can drink natural/biodynamic wines that have no added sulfites but even those have a tiny amount that make her sneeze. Her allergy showed up out of nowhere in her early 50s. I wonder If you've developed a similar sensitivity, as cheaper wines tend to have more added sulfites as a preservative.

try organic wines - I don't think they have sulphites in those. Maybe an frizzante, or a cava etc - I don't think they would have sulphites in sparklers.

There's no secondary fermentation in wines.

Yes there is! But this is usually discovered and disposed of before it reaches the shelves.

Is it not that your tastes have improved and the wine is just nasty? I'm not knocking your tenner bottles OP....but since I got older, I only enjoy good wine. I used to like a bottle of tenner wine but these days I can really taste the difference.

Don't they ship a lot of wine here and bottle in the UK? I doubt there is any.

Even if there was, a bit of secondary fermentation wouldn't be an issue anyway, is it? It doesn't make the wine "off".

I recommend Hardys Stamp Shiraz.. £5.50 a bottle in Asda and never tasted off. Ok it's red but it's verrrry nice.

Personally I have never found a £10 bottle to be nicer than a £6 bottle, except the more expensive ones tend to give me a headache!

It may be your body has gone off wine!

That sounds perfectly OK. Cheaper wine is often made sweet to hide its lack of character. More expensive wine may well be drier and more acidic. Slight carbonation is also perfectly normal.

@JontyDoggle37 there may also be an issue in your area of distribution. As in, the wines weren’t stored, properly when they were being transported to your region of the country, etc.

Has this also happened to you when you be drunken the wine immediately after buying it and taking it home? If so, there may be a storage or other problem in your wider regional network.

There is secondary fermentation in some wines. It's how champagne, cava etc are made.

OP, you're not buying these types of wines are you? You do know that they're supposed to be fizzy? [smile}

Gth1234 yep we ship a lot in in bulk, it's what I do!, to get bottled in the UK. And we do get secondary fermentation. It makes the bulk bags bloat and make them split in really bad cases. This wine mostly gets rejected, but even if not it won't be used for it's intended purpose.

The major players have really stringent checks in place before the wine is bottled. This includes supermarket wines, they are very proud of the awards they win for their wines and rightly so!

I've only come across 3 "off" bottles in my life so this sounds like a lot to me.

Agree with posters who suggested looking further afield in case of problems with local storage.

Last time I lived in the UK, I used to get a wine case delivered occasionally rather than lugging bottles from the supermarket. I'm not a wine buff but always seemed good quality and economical for me.

Corked wine has a very particular musty taste. It’s actually fairly rare.

If you are buying white wine with a cap then it’s vanishingly unlikely to be spoilt unless you are opening it and then leaving it two days or more.

Also drink lots of wine and have never had that problem. Would normally pay £5-8 for a bottle.

Xiaoxiong, that is interestijng!

I have gone off wine over the last few years, it too often just tastes a bit sour, fizzy and off

I developed hayfever and other allergies randomly in my forties.....

Could this just be another allergy?!

Fwiw £10 is an expensive bottle for me

No, you are deluded.

Sulfite allergy here too, gives me a far worse hangover than clear spirits. I also get flu like symptoms the next day and it triggers my asthma. Try drinking a sulfite free organic option and see how you feel

It's years since I've had an off bottle. Are you sure it's how it's meant to be? I find sauvignon Blanc tastes off but its what it tastes like so I avoid

Are you storing it standing up?

Tbh its pretty rare to have issues now as most bottles are screw top.