100 Recipes Using Leftover Red Wine - Recipe Girl (2024)

FAQs

Can you do anything with old red wine? ›

The truth is that you can use old wine for cooking a variety of dishes. Whether you use red or white wine doesn't matter. You can cook with wine for up to two months or longer after the bottle has been opened. Even if the wine you use for cooking is unfit for drinking.

Keep your wine in the fridge

But you shouldn't be afraid of storing opened red wine in the fridge. Cooler temperatures slow down chemical processes, including oxidation. A re-closed bottle of red or white wine in the fridge can stay relatively fresh for up to five days.

Add a cup of leftover red to your bath to help nourish, exfoliate, and protect your skin. Cleaning produce – Wine also has impressive antimicrobial capacity. Include it in your produce rinse to help kill surface bacteria. Fruit fly trap – These small bugs can be quite annoying, especially in summer.

Generally, an opened bottle of red wine can last for up to 5 days if stored properly in a cool and dark place with a wine stopper or cork in place to prevent excess oxygen from getting in. For white wine, it can last for up to 3 days under the same storage conditions.

When stored properly and kept unopened, white wines can often outlive their recommended drinking window by 1-2 years, red wines by 2-3 years, and cooking wines by 3-5 years. Fine wine — as you may have guessed — can typically be consumed for decades.

If you find yourself with leftover wine, don't let it go to waste! Rich stews, amazing sauces, and even desserts can be enhanced with a bit of Pinot Noir, Burgundy, or whatever red wine you have on hand. To deglaze a pan, tenderize meat, or build flavor and depth into a dish, any standard red wine can do the trick.

The easiest way to make your own wine vinegar is to leave an open, 3/4-full bottle of wine in a warm place for a couple of weeks. It's really that simple—the natural oxidation process will do all of the work. The only issue you may encounter is fruit flies.

How to use old red wine? ›

You can use red wine to dye your favorite shirt or piece of clothing. To begin, bring your leftover wine to a simmer in a large, nonreactive pot. Then, add whatever fabric you want to dye and stir for about 10 minutes. After allowing it to cool completely, you'll have a fashionable new shirt that's to dye for!

You don't need to refrigerate red wine if it's unopened, but red wine is at its best when stored at a temperature of about 55° F. The ideal temperature for serving red wine is between 60-68° F. That should be cooler than room temperature, the temp most people probably go by when pouring reds.

If you use it frequently and finish the bottle within a few months, keeping it in a cool, dark pantry should suffice. However, if you want to preserve its flavor for an extended time, refrigeration is the way to go.

Yes. But it's important to note that wine will only freeze below its freezing point. At (or above, of course) you'll have a wine slushy. So check the temperature of your freezer, which should be 0 degrees F per the FDA, and the alcohol by volume (ABV) of your wine.

Generally, an opened bottle of red wine can last for up to 5 days if stored properly in a cool and dark place with a wine stopper or cork in place to prevent excess oxygen from getting in. For white wine, it can last for up to 3 days under the same storage conditions.

Can I drink wine left out overnight? Yes, you can. But remember that whether overnight at room temperature ruins your wine depends on factors like type, temperature, and exposure to air. It might lose freshness or vibrancy, but generally, it won't be harmful to drink.