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Look at Spanish wines and buy at random in your price range. Out of 10 wines, 2 will be undrinkable swill you tip down the sink, 5 will be drinkable, but boring
by danieltillett 11y ago
Look at Spanish wines and buy at random in your price range. Out of 10 wines, 2 will be undrinkable swill you tip down the sink, 5 will be drinkable, but boring, 2 will be good, and 1 will be fantastic. When you hit the fantastic wine then buy as much as you can of that wine. Repeat :)
- draven 11y agoInstead of pouring the bad ones down the sink, if they're not extremely bad, cook with them! I've saved some "meh" red wines by cooking a boeuf bourguignon, and some white ones to do a sauce au beurre blanc for example.
- danieltillett 11y agoThis is certainly an option, but bad wines can ruin good food in cooking. As a general rule if the wine is too bad to drink then it is too bad to cook with. An alternative is to return the wine to the store for a refund. I have only ever done this a few times when the wine was very obviously faulty. The most interesting faulty wine I have ever had was one where the wine ruined my taste buds such that every wine that I tasted after that on the night tasted terrible (it did this for my wife too). I opened about a half dozen bottles of wine over a few hours to see how long this effect lasted - it lasted the night, but luckly by the next day everything was back to normal. I almost wished I had bought up more bottles of this wine to give to my enemies :)