freezing wine?

[phatassphairy]

i am not a wine drinker  :-))i have no idea about wines at all and i often seem to end up with wine in my house ... i only use it in cooking ... and it seems such a waste to toss it out ? so i go on a frantic wine based recipe dinners and then freeze those .... but i am thinking i could just freeze the wine ? what do you think?

[cookie1]

I have no idea. Perhaps try it and see.

[Debbiebillg]

Ummm when I was in grade 8 in high school ...... you know how you freeze drink bottles to take to school in summer, well I froze some wine in mine and snuck it into school lol But not sure about your question reallly but I can tell you we did drink it LOL

[judydawn]

 I froze it once - some of it went icy but some stayed liquid which would be the alcohol content as that is not supposed to freeze.   That's why I now buy small casks of dry white wine for cooking - don't have to worry about how long it will last.

Just found this on the net

Usually, you can. If the alcohol level is less than 13%, it should freeze solid without trouble. I currently have some in the freezer which is 13.5% and it is not quite completely frozen.

[gertbysea]

The simple answer is NO!

For some wine based recipes you could possibly use Vermouth as a white wine substitute. Vermouth  keeps in the cupboard forever. For Red you could substitute  Port which also keeps forever.

VinoCotto or verjuice might work.

Personally I would just up the stock or water to equal the amount.

I only use wine I would serve to my friends in cooking. In my opinion there is no such thing as "cooking"  wine. Then again most of my friends would drunk anything including a $ 3.50 bottle of plonk. Buy that .

A decent  2 litre cask  of red will keep a few months and would be useful.. A small  cask of white wine would keep,for a few  weeks as well

If you live near a big bottle,shop you might be able to get  those small pouches of wine. I think about 200 mils.

Most recipes can work without the wine anyway.

Gert

[meganjane]

I agree with Gert. Don't freeze wine, use verjuice or vermouth.

[Mama Fergie]

I agree with Gert don't freeze wine and don't cook with wine that you wouldn't drink.

Your dish is only as good as the ingredients that go into itn

[EmeraldSue]

DH says that he will take it off you LOL
Seriously though, he has a chemistry background and suggests sealing the wine in a container so that it's not in contact with air and it will keep in the fridge for a couple of weeks.  He says that you can freeze the leftover wine if you are not going to use it within a couple of weeks.
The alcohol content will mean that it won't freeze solid, but provided the wine was good in the first place, it should be fine to cook with.

[fundj&e]

gert DS buys cooking wine from his  dry goods supplier its has a pinch of salt and pepper in it, so the supplier does not need a liquor licence to sell it

[obbie]

agree if you wont drink it, don't use it for cooking

[phatassphairy]

thanks for the reply guys ..... now Emerald Sue, just because when it comes to wine ..lets say if i was in a freak accident i could not tell the differents between Sh*t and clay if it side swiped me .... so this is what i used --penefolds, Thomas Hyland, cabernet sauignon, sth australia, 2004? is that too his tastes? ....kekeke

Debbie--- we must of went to the same school ... cause i think this is where my distaste to wine started  

well i might just pop a cup in the freezer and see what happens ......or looks like i am up for a weekend of wine cooking  

[gertbysea]

Where did you get that bottle?  I would think that  wine, although was good vintage, would've on it's way out by now.  If it was in pristine condition  I would not have used it in cooking. I would have drunk it. Sometimes a wine can be too expensive and too good for cooking .

Yikes I would have liked to,have tasted that wine.

Gert

[EmeraldSue]

DH agrees with Gert - he would have drunk it too

[phatassphairy]

i was at a fundraising event at the casino about 6months ago and i won 3 bottles of wine and a $150 dinner voucher  .

the other two are white wine .... which i still have ...
wolf blass --red label-- chardonnay
hardys voyage gordo riesling, traminer 2005 vintage.

not sure what i will do with these yet 

[judydawn]

I'd just open them when you have visitors - share the love around.  I'll have a glass of the riesling and the traminer please but not keen on chardonnay.