I have a couple bottles of champagne in my house in a cold section. I opened a bottle and it tasted like medicine. Did the champagne go bad?
2007-01-04 12:39:16 · 4 answers · asked by null 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Champagne is not typically "aged" in the bottle like wine. It is safe to drink for about 1-2 years without loosing its taste.
It sounds like yours went bad.
2007-01-04 14:47:49 · answer #1 · answered by zkiwi2004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a debate about the aging of champagne. Champagne's freshness has contributed to most people's impression that it should be enjoyed soon after purchase. Vintage champagne is often put aside to be enjoyed years after its release. As champagne ages, it deepens in color and often develops bready, caramelized flavors and aromas.
The English passion for the fragile and ephemeral flavours of old wine evolved from these circumstances. However young wine bought at the cellar door can be enormously enjoyable. The connosieurs' insistance on the superiority of old wine over young is not helpful. This is very much a matter of personal taste.
2007-01-04 20:46:05 · answer #2 · answered by Remember The 300 Spartans 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wines, include champagne, once openned eventually turn acidic and into cooking wine and thence vinegar
2007-01-04 21:47:40 · answer #3 · answered by tolitstolites 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. I believe it's like wine. It improves with age.
2007-01-04 22:37:56 · answer #4 · answered by mochachinna76 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋