If the wine stains you lips red then tonight you might forget

[venta]

On account of, since Thursday night, a work Christmas party (cava, cocktails, wine, cocktails), a friend's party (champagne, champagne, champagne), a pre-Christmas dinner with friends (prosecco, red wine, port) and a pub quiz (beer), I feel like I ought to let my liver have a little rest

Comments

[huskyteer]

Is it so nice that mulling it would be a waste? Cos that's what I'd do.

[venta]

I do like mulled wine, but (rather surprisingly to me) it appears my instinctive reaction is that it's nice, so I don't want to mull it.

[tigerfort]

The general rule is that mulling good wine is a bad idea. Mulling actually works best with a rough, low-grade wine; if you mull something really nice, you wind up with mulled wine that's inferior not only to the original un-mulled wine but also to mulled wine made from own-brand cheap plonk.

[ailbhe]

Freeze it to put in stew later.

[venta]

Does that work? I mean obviously (unless it's very alcoholic wine indeed) it's physically possible - but does it come out the other end all right?

I feel like it shouldn't, but can't come up with a single sensible, scientific reason why it wouldn't.

[ailbhe]

I have no idea since I almost never have wine, when I do it's in 187ml bottles, and then I don't cook with it, but it's a tip I've read LOTS of times and it seems to me as though it ought to work.

[venta]

Well, in an attempt to please everyone I have drunk some of it and frozen some of it :) Using my favourite receptacle-for-freezing-things-you-want-to-end-up-bigger-than-ice-cubes, the silicon muffin tray.

[sammason]

Give the wine to somebody who'll enjoy it.

[sammason]

Your mention of stained lips reminds me of betel nut http://www.wikihow.com/Chew-Betel-Nut-in-Papua-New-Guinea

[exspelunca]

Put it in the stew (but you know that's the only way I can tolerate red wine)