# Drinking half bottle of non-refrigerated red wine after 10 days - is it actually safe?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 9, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-half-bottle-of-non-refrigerated-red-wine-after-10-days-is-it-actually-safe/788468 "2017-06-09T00:26:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Madmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@Madmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madmon)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-half-bottle-of-non-refrigerated-red-wine-after-10-days-is-it-actually-safe/788468/41 "2017-06-12T13:32:53Z")

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We keep wine up to 3-5 days after the bottle has been opened, but my friend have tried to drink a one month old half bottle of wine even without recork or refregerate. Nothing happen, So no worries guys.

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