# It's time for the Great Leftover Red Wine challenge!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** wine
**Created:** [May 14, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479 "2010-05-14T21:58:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479/1 "2010-05-14T21:58:36Z")
I have about 2/3 of a bottle of Shiraz (Gemtree Bloodstone, if it matters) sitting in the fridge. It’s been there for a bit now, maybe a week or two - the weather here has gotten muggy and warm and humid and just does not inspire one to sip red wine.
So, I’ve decided the Shiraz has now been demoted to a Cooking Wine.
The question is, what should I do with it? I’d rather avoid anything that takes hours’n’hours to cook (see above: muggy warm weather) or I would have braised a pot roast in it by now. I can’t think of what to do with the wine. What say you, Kitchen Dopers? What’s your favorite culinary use for a medium-dry but reasonable fruity red wine, that preferably doesn’t take more than an hour or so?
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### Author:  [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479/2 "2010-05-14T22:12:50Z")
I often use red in my chicken risotto. It gives a really lovely flavour, and a very attractive colour to the rice.
Or you could just freeze the wine and use it in a casserole when the weather cools off again.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479/3 "2010-05-14T22:13:45Z")
Add a half cup or so to your spaghetti sauce while it simmers.
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### Author:  [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479/4 "2010-05-14T22:20:02Z")
Use as the liquid in a pot of chili - though that might not work for you for warm muggy weather either.
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### Author:  [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479/5 "2010-05-14T22:37:47Z")
Taste a little–it may already be too oxidized & taste yucky. I have an extensive wine cellar, and just realized a couple of months ago that Target sells wine that’s fine for cooking in a four pack of 8 oz. cartons. I can’t tell you how much wine I’ve wasted–I highly recommend trying those–opened wine really doesn’t keep more than a couple of days if that (it should be refrigerated, too).
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479/6 "2010-05-14T23:17:55Z")
Make sangria!
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### Author:  [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479/7 "2010-05-16T13:43:41Z")
add a bit to to the ground beef for hamburgers.
Use it to make a salad dressing.
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Violaceous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Violaceous)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479/8 "2010-05-16T15:08:20Z")
Make your own vinegar?
> **[How to Make Your Own Vinegar From Wine—It's Better Than Store-Bought](https://www.thespruceeats.com/diy-wine-vinegar-2019096)**
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> Wine vinegar is easy to make, and homemade wine vinegar is much tastier and cheaper than mass-produced store-bought vinegars.
> **[How to Make Vinegar](https://www.wine-tastings-guide.com/how-to-make-vinegar.html)**
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> Why should you want to learn how to make vinegar? Besides being a good use for left-over wine, when you make wine vinegar yourself it results in much better vinegar than you can buy in most stores!
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### Author:  [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479/9 "2010-05-16T16:17:43Z")
These came out so good I couldn’t stop eating them. [http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Red-Wine-Caramel-Apples-355469](http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Red-Wine-Caramel-Apples-355469)
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### Author:  [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479/10 "2010-05-17T20:43:21Z")
Leftover. Left…over. Leftover? Wine left over? Wine not drunk? Wine opened and then not consumed?
Sorry, the concept just is not something I can wrap my mind around.
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479/11 "2010-05-17T20:48:05Z")
Crock Pot Pot Roast (or chili) is wonderful, and doesn’t heat up your kitchen.
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### Author:  [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-great-leftover-red-wine-challenge/539479/12 "2010-05-17T20:59:52Z")
> [@kittenblue](#):
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> These came out so good I couldn’t stop eating them. [http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Red-Wine-Caramel-Apples-355469](http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Red-Wine-Caramel-Apples-355469)
Those look so awesome. They are on my list of things to make and eat once I get these damn braces off.