Store Leftover Red Wine in the Refrigerator
If you have a few open bottles of wine left on your New Year’s adventures, you can throw them in the refrigerator – even red ones.
Although I traditionally store white wine in the refrigerator, open bottles of red wine are usually left on the kitchen counter where they remain until the next night when I finish them, or until the end of the next week when I remember they exist and throw them away. …
This week, the wine enthusiast made an offer I somehow never thought about: keep open red wine in the refrigerator.
According to the wine enthusiast, the cool temperature of your refrigerator can’t stop the wine from breaking down, but it can help slow the process down, giving you a little more time to drink it at its best.
Unsure of this, I’ve done some more research and this is the recommendation of many other wine experts. Wine Folly claims oxidation will be slower if you store wine in the refrigerator.
If you find yourself storing half-used bottles often, Wine Folly also suggests using a vacuum pump that will suck all the air out of the bottle when you close it again.
If you don’t have a vacuum pump, Wine Enthusiast suggests pouring the leftover wine into a screw-top bottle so you can close it tightly and prevent more oxygen from entering through the open stopper during storage.
And unlike before, don’t keep an open wine bottle on your side. This way, you expose more of the wine to oxygen and inadvertently degrade rather than improve the taste of the wine.