How Do You Use Up Rubbish Wine?

[expatinscotland]

I bought a bottle in Sainsbury's yesterday that just turned out to be the boak. Had a glass w/dinner and felt like I was drinking battery acid mixed w/vinegar - didn't finish the glass - and then had a splitting headache with it.

Any ideas how to use this stuff up w/o having to drink it??

cook with it

Buy a vinegar maker. You need a mother vinegar - leave about 6 cms of vinegar, cider or wine, not malt, in the bottom of a bottle in a dark place for a few weeks and it might start up, or buy one (easy to get here in Bordeaux cos of the wine, but don't know in the UK). Tip all your wine dregs in and pull off the vinegar once a month. Tastes divine.

if red, slop into bolognese / casserole etc, or if it's not too bad, mull it (unseasonal but tasty)
if white, risotto, fish, chicken casserole etc

what was it, out of interest, so we can avoid it too?

i freeze it and use it in cooking..
what was that thing about someone saying who would have wine left over in retort to someone suggesting freezing it..cant rem

freeze it into glass size portions (in bags obv) so you have some to hand when you next cook.

(this tip is copyright of Nigella Lawson)

glass sized portions? eh?

My bouef bourguignon recipe uses half a bottle

if it's that bad, i wouldn't even cook with it

Campaneo 2005 Old Vines Garnacha.

Supposed to be fruity, so fixed a lovely couscous, lentil, olive, red onion and tomato salad to eat with it.

SOOOO tannic, made even the worst cab sauv I've tasted seem sweet as a merlot.

Yuk. Avoid like hte plague.

I'm off wine for Lent and had half a old bottle of Aussie sparkling white in the fridge glaring at me ... so mixed big splosh of it with grated cheddar and butter = best ever toasted cheese.

(Re Lent, it doesn't count if you're not actually swigging, of course.)

Is it the one that was £6 and is now reduced to £3 on offer? We got a crate of that on Saturday and it tastes ok to me (hic).

Thanks for the idea, ggg! I like the idea of getting a vinegar out of it.

I'm going to try the vinegar/wine and see if it starts up.

Could get a nice salad dressing out of it, perhaps.

would it not have tasted better after the first two glasses??

Yes, it is, OO.

It just didn't taste good to me.

how about making Sangria?

maybe your bottle was corked

What did you eat it with, that can sometimes make wine taste funny.

Or maybe I am a lush?

Usually tip it down the sink...

Sink cleaning, definitely - tipped wine always makes it sparkly - and if it doesn't, who cares - it was undrinkable

Oh meant to say - don't cook with it or sangria it - ime, crap wine is still crap if you cook with it. I have a policy of never cooking with any wine I wouldn't happily drink... (besides, it keeps me happy drinking the "spare" while in the kitchen)

Imagining it on 'how clean is your house'.

'Now the best way to freshen your sink is with last nights wine...add a few drops..mixed with'

Had a bottle wine given to me by my boss as a xmas present, it went straight down the sink!

Expat - take it back to Sainsbury's and get your money back. I used to work on the customer service desk in another supermarket and we got stuff like that all the time. I doubt if the staff would even bat an eyelid. All the chefs say that if you wouldn't drink it then you shouldn't cook with it either.....

Sounds lime it's off. Take it back.

lime = like

I had it with a couscous salad. Man it was yucky.

I'd feel bad about taking it back, tho.

We had ours with parma ham wrapped chicken breasts and it went ok

Take it back, I am sure most big supermarkets do this.