# Shelf life of opened sherry, port, or booze

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**Created:** [November 1, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shelf-life-of-opened-sherry-port-or-booze/272399 "2004-11-01T20:39:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shelf-life-of-opened-sherry-port-or-booze/272399/21 "2004-11-02T13:18:37Z")

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With both port and sherry it depends what kind you’re drinking. Tawny or liquor port will keep for pretty long periods. Vintage port is best drunk at a sitting.

Fino and manzanilla sherries (the pale, dry ones) shouldn’t be kept _unopened_ for more than a couple of months. Once open, a couple of weeks in the fridge is about all they can take.

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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shelf-life-of-opened-sherry-port-or-booze/272399/22 "2004-11-02T13:22:41Z")

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There’s a definite decline in port taste if you have a bottle go opened for a couple of days. However a bottle of LBV (late bottled vintage) will maintain the same taste for a longer period of time, since it was designed specifically for that purpose.

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