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Wine you regret


I donate them to a church/synagogue potluck
  23% (4)
I dump them out and leave the empties for recycling
  23% (4)
I leave the full bottles out for neighborhood street people.
  11% (2)
I forget them. My heirs will dump them out someday.
  41% (7)


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(last vote on : 4/15/2024 7:48:51 AM)
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RE: Wine you regret - 4/9/2024 12:08:33 PM   
skifree

 

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From: SE King County, Washington
Status: offline 		I have a bottle of Amarone queued up for the next Seattle Tasting group meeting, there are always random wines at the beginning of the tasting. I am not a fan of Amarone.

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RE: Wine you regret - 4/9/2024 1:19:40 PM   
RedLoverJim

 

Posts: 271
Joined: 9/25/2008
From: Hurstville, Texas
Status: offline 		Most of ours isn't wines we regret, but more that we buy more than we can drink, and for various reasons our consumption has slowed a bit.

We'll do a cellar clearing party once or twice a year. Over the past couple of years we have done a series of get togethers with that intent, each with a different theme: "Sparkler from around the world", "Pinots from around the world", Chardonnays, Whites/Pinks, etc. Open a couple of dozen bottles within theme, many of them Gragiste type buys, but with plenty of allocation level wines mixed in. Some may be pushing or past prime, some just excess quantity, some just ones we're curious about but have not gotten around to opening.

A couple of months ago, as spring shipping was gearing up, we did one called "Why the heck did I buy this much wine?? AKA Cellar Clearing Party". 48 bottles for 20 or so people, and we sent partials home with people.

All are good excuses to get together and drink some good wine.

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RE: Wine you regret - 4/9/2024 4:15:28 PM   
recotte

 

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Joined: 1/19/2011
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quote:

ORIGINAL: grafstrb

... put into Vinegar Jar.




Nice option. Do you keep separate batches of vinegar going, or is it one big cuvée of leftover wine?

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Post #: 33
RE: Wine you regret - 4/11/2024 8:57:24 PM   
champagneinhand

 

Posts: 10281
Joined: 5/30/2011
From: Upstate New York, California born.
Status: offline 		We have a hospice that does a charity wine auction. They love putting together lots of donated wine.

Most of the stuff I may not be that into sits as it’s built to age and my tastes change, fickleness. I won’t shy from cooking with bottles of some petit sirah, which I found hidden the other day. I use a good amount of wine in cooking. More white than red, but in winters reds are great for stews, pot roasts, red sauces anything that uses beef broth for the most part and the vinegar idea is good. I go through lots of red wine vinegar. I like sandwiches on rolls, like a sub/hoagie whatever you happen to call it and red wine vinegar is a topping of preference. I can use it as a salad dressing with crumbly blue chunks and in places I would otherwise use apple cider vinegar much of the time. I definitely filter any homemade. It’s easy to buy a meniscus to get the right flavor starter.

Then there’s always just pouring them out. I don’t do much of that but I never really bought huge cellar defenders. At worst I have some decent petit chateau Bordeaux that needs to be consumed in the next few years and some WA state wine that were so impressive I bought from Full Pull and either their fading or are surprisingly better than I thought they would be.

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RE: Wine you regret - 4/12/2024 8:09:37 PM   
jmc167

 

Posts: 81
Joined: 12/30/2015
From: Portland, Or
Status: offline 		Much like others:

1) If it is suspect terrible - I leave for the Wine Storage facility, they have a bunch of groups always looking for wines for blind tasting

2) If it is decent but I just have too much - I give it to some friends

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Just a guy trying to drink as much as I purchase, and losing this battle brilliantly!

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Post #: 35
RE: Wine you regret - 4/14/2024 12:21:54 PM   
KPB

 

Posts: 4649
Joined: 11/25/2012
From: Ithaca, New York
Status: offline 		The vinegar thing also puzzles me (we use a tablespoon or less per week)!

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Post #: 36
RE: Wine you regret - 4/14/2024 4:59:07 PM   
ericindc

 

Posts: 2081
Joined: 7/6/2012
From: District of Columbia
Status: offline 		The 2 bottles from the Zachys auction where I didnt realize it was a Hong Kong auction.

Anyone in Hong Kong coming to DC soon?


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Post #: 37
RE: Wine you regret - 4/15/2024 12:10:43 AM   
BenG

 

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Joined: 5/5/2009
From: Australian in Idaho
Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: ericindc

The 2 bottles from the Zachys auction where I didnt realize it was a Hong Kong auction.

Anyone in Hong Kong coming to DC soon?



Paul can write up some good tasting notes for you.

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RE: Wine you regret - 4/15/2024 4:52:46 AM   
Paul852

 

Posts: 2650
Joined: 6/27/2018
From: Hong Kong
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: BenG
quote:

ORIGINAL: ericindc

The 2 bottles from the Zachys auction where I didnt realize it was a Hong Kong auction.

Anyone in Hong Kong coming to DC soon?


Paul can write up some good tasting notes for you.

Happy to oblige any time!

But no plans to be in the states any time soon I'm afraid.

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Post #: 39
RE: Wine you regret - 4/15/2024 5:40:10 PM   
KPB

 

Posts: 4649
Joined: 11/25/2012
From: Ithaca, New York
Status: offline 		Acting on my new policy, emptied 4 bottles and put them out for recycling. Two weeks from now they will be joined by another ten or fifteen (ok, it may take two cycles and add up to thirty), and should already fix most or all of the issue!

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RE: Wine you regret - 4/15/2024 5:41:42 PM   
KPB

 

Posts: 4649
Joined: 11/25/2012
From: Ithaca, New York
Status: offline 		By the way, one consumption pull down option is “delete bottles”. Seems ideal for this situation…

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