Off Topic Wine Drinkers

Found a bottle of red I had no idea I had, with 2015 on the label. Will it be OK to drink? It was a gift from work so probably cheap crap, Pacifica Sur Merlot. Should be fine, aye?

 

Chilean, so should be decent but not great. Broadly, Chile produces reasonable wines at very reasonable prices.
Some wines (eg. Beaujolais) are intended to be drunk young. Others (eg. vintage, classic clarets) are best to keep and mature for a decade or more.
I'd drink the wine soon and it's highly unlikely to have deteriorated unless corked.
Strictly amateur hour with me, but I have a passing interest.

 

Should be fine.

 

If it tastes like **** bin it.

 

That’s not the sell by date mate - its when it was bottled.

 

Cheers,

I know that man, I'm not that stupid. But don't know how long wine lasts. I'll have it tomorrow with my dinner, if I get ill I'll just blame the wife's cooking

 

Wine normally lasts for years unless its not been bottled correctly. Once opened though you should try and finish it in one sitting - particularly if Newcastle have won.

 

Before today I thought we might have been waiting that long! Thanks. Oh, and it'll be gone in 1 sitting that's not an issue

 

Theres no point in alcohol consumption.. thow it away and have a pint if water.

 

Whilst “courting” my wife many years ago I did the first (but definitely not the last) visit to my wife’s, then girlfriend, parents house. Her mother, now my mother in law (everyone keeping up?), gave me a half pint of brandy to drink as none of them drank it and she wanted it used up before it went off. It was years before I ever mentioned that brandy didn’t go off.

 

I get a biscuit each time I visit pouchies lass. That’s why I’ve had to lose loads of weight.. she was making me fat.

 

On a similar note

I have a bottle of Lambs navy rum
Bottle of Bicardi
Bottle of napoleon brandy
Bottle of Glenfiddich whisky

I bought this lot n 1978 thinking they would come in handy for future birthdays Christmas etc.
Problem is I became teetotal not long after
(No I didnt have a drink problem)

So wonder the same do you think they would of gone off or just matured

 

They'll have gone off. Give them to me and I'll get rid of them for you

 

Going teetotal shouldn’t stop you from drink whisky or rum. Just put them in the tea instead of milk.

 

I thought I might get a reply like this

They have been in the cupboard for the 30 years I've been married
Was going to open them in 1996 when we won the league
Never had another opportunity since

 

They'll be fine, spirits don't go off

 

They do. Ask my mother in law, she knows.

 

Ive got some out of date roids in my draw i cant wait to inject them ...

So

Yeah drink the wine

 

Talking of your mother in law
Where IS chippy