how long a red wine can be held sealed in a bottle?

Question

well i actually meant that until when the wine is still drinkable ?

Answer 1

Dont believe the hype of all these posts...

Certain wines have different age requirements. the higher the quality usually means it will hold longer until maturity. Some wine will hold for 50 years. When you buy a bottle of garbage like Sutter Home you should use it to cook, or GASP!! drink it within 1 year. You need to consult the shop where you bought the wine. Many of the bottles out there (id say 95%) are not so tasty after 15 years in the bottle. They slowly become vinegar. If you buy the wine at a large store that only caters to wine then the staff should be able to give you an estimate on the holding periods. (they have a book in the back that tells the the best time to maturity)

From what i know, wine isnt better when its aged. Most wine is meant to be drank fresh, or within the first year. For instance you should shop around for a 2005 bottle right now. The longer the wine stays in the bottle the higher the chance is that it will be vinegar when you open it. Even good wines will go bad.

In theory some wine has been held in a bottles for almost 500 years. It was undrinkable, but it was held.

Drinkable wine should be held for no longer then 50 years. that means it needs to be in the correct aged enviornment. Not too much temperature variations, and dark.

Answer 2

This is a 'how long is a piece of string question' to which the answer depends on which wine, how it is stored.

If it is an everyday wine, then it is intended for immediate drinking and will keep OK for a few years. The more you pay, generally the longer it will keep.

But you must ask why you want to keep wine a long time.

Wine is a living thing and it changes in the bottle with time. The changes are chemically complicated internally and affected by the ingress of very small amounts of oxygen.

The wine will change, a tannic wine will slowly lose the tannins allowing fruit flavors to become more dominant, and wine lovers will consider that an improvement and a benefit of aging. But with time the fruit flavors will fade, so the trick is to open it before the fruit fades but after the tannins soften. Often that never happens.

An old wine tastes quite different. It is an acquired taste, and many people who taste old wines do not like the flavor, preferring fresh fruity young wines.

It is true that a few great wines are drinakble after decades, indeed after many decades. But there is another factor -- the cork deteriorates and needs to be replaced every 40 or so years.

So I'd say that, if kept in ideal conditions, a good red wine made intended for aging should be drinkable for 40 years. But you might not like the taste -- indeed you may consider it 'bad'.

Answer 3

Knowing that tannins from the seeds, skins and the oak gives age ability to wine, red wines usually can be cellared a long time. The life span of a wine depends on many things: the varietal ( the grapes it is make from ), the year on the bottle which is the year it was harvested, the body (tannins, bold flavors, alcohol, etc.) of the wine itself.

Generally speaking you can keep red wine longer than white wines. White wines with oak aging will keep a few years longer than a white with no oak. To find out how long to keep that special bottle you have, look at the date on the label and ask the producer about this particular win’s lifespan. Remember not all wines are created equal, each wine is different, therefore the answers vary based on how, where and when it was made.

Answer 4

A short answer to a difficult question may be found on this site, but the wine is one thing, the storage conditions (your wine cellar if you have one) are the other. But as I said, a short answer...
http://www.cellarnotes.net/howlongtohold.htm
ps I'm amazed at the prices you must pay in the US. I drink wine most days and pay around 5$ for a quite drinkable 2003 Bordeaux
But then I live in France..

Answer 5

If you are asking about a specific wine that you have, your best bet is to ask someone at a wine shop, or call the winery and ask them when the peak drinkability window is. Most wines under $30 or $40 are meant to be drunk within the next five years. The ones over that *may* be able to be stored for longer, given they are complex enough wines and are stored in proper conditions.

Answer 6

Different wines may be kept in a bottle for different times. A good wine has potential to be matured and may be kept in a bottle for over 100 years (a really good wine, that is, for exaple some of the rarest most expensive wines are chateau lafytte from 1904). A reasonnably good wine should be kept in a bottle for some 10 years and a cheap wine has no point to be kept in a bottle for more than a couple of years, thats why they're called table wines because they go from the store to yopur table.

Answer 7

it depends on the wine.even sealed wine oxidizes, and the tannons are what combat the oxidization.Tannons are the bitter taste you get in reds and tea. thats why most reds are 3-5 years old, and red wines age in the bottle becoming more complex with age.the sweeter the wine the longer it can age. so yes wines can age 50 to 100 years and still be good, most wont last that long though.Only sauternes and the likesof such.check a wine review guide for the peticular wine in question.

Answer 8

That is not possible..50 years.The wine is seasoned and excellent actually up to the 5th year..That's the truth,otherwise all bottles are for collectionist and don't are supposed to be drunk.

Answer 9

Some very well crafted wines can go upwards of ten or twelve years after that it starts to decline!

Answer 10

Any. Even for 50 years