Crap red wine what to make

Won a bottle of blossom hill…

Have a bbq coming up. Thinking making sangria any better options

@binners you like sangria

Beef and red wine stew.

Chilli?  Spag bol?

Vino Tinto de verano

I’m bringing some Lambrini with me tomorrow mate, so we’re laughing

Reduce it and make steak sauce.

Add coke and make folk vomit.

Venison stew

I’m bbqing so could marinade

But booze…

If you wouldn’t drink it, why would you cook with it?

Drink some “British Wine” and reset your expectations about just how bad wine can be.

Mulled wine is probably the most appropriate thing for the current weather.

Gift it to a brexit it voter for xmas

Wine professional here…. Don’t cook with it, you’ll only spoil the food. Unfortunately cheap red is the hardest to do anything with. Suggest mulled wine or sangria. What ever you do, don’t cellar it!

Tinto verano many f it’s warm weather

If not save it for mulled wine

It’s not bad wine if it’s ice-cold.

Otherwise just use it for cooking.

I reckon you can get away with cheap wine in a ragu.

Mix it with lemonade or sparking water or Coke.

If you won’t drink it, don’t cook with it. Hic…

Apple and custard lasagne.

No, really.

Give it to someone with long covid. Haven’t been able to taste or smell red wine since April 2020.

I had Binners down as more of a cherry lambrini gal.

Vinegar

Apple and custard lasagne.

Wow, didn’t know that existed… not sure what the Italians would make of it, but that’s their problem not mine 🙂

And another vote for tinto de verano.

Red wine vinegar. Will take a few months though

Conchiglie alla burrino.

Start a not quite ragu by slow cooking medium sliced onions. Once they get going add a tin of toms. Salt and quite a lot of black pepper, garlic if you like, it works well without. Chorizo, the supermarket horseshoe tied ones. Cut into 5mm rounds, put in separate pan and cover with red wine, bring to boil to poach the chorizo and immediately remove from heat. Add the sausage and some of the wine to the other pan. Add nearly a mug full of frozen peas (the bigger type if you can get). Taste and season, I prefer without the garlic, basil and oregano, but the majority in our house like all three, the black pepper isn’t optional. Adjust sauce by adding extra wine or  tomato puree to get consistency you like. Simmering and resting does help it, but it’s ready to go now if you need it. Serve with pasta shells.

Standby cupboard staple in our house, start to table in 25 minutes or so.

You could use a wallpaper steamer to boil it and then make a coil and a swanneck out of copper pipe left in the garage to act as a condenser and you would have a little still. The liquid that ‘might’ come out is totally clear. Make sure you let the first 10% boil off and leave the last 30% as that is the dregs. The middle bit ‘might’ be drinkable, or use it as a fire lighting fluid.

Don’t ask me now I know this.

Kalimotxo, red wine and coke. Quite pleasant and the coke will overpower the crap red.

If not, as above, ragu. I do get the “don’t cook with wine you wouldn’t drink” things, but a ragu will hide it well.

I cook with wine a lot. There’s quite a spectrum of “bad wine”. Blossom Hill is not bad in a way that will spoil food. I tend to boil up bones from cooked meat and chicken (I can hear some bubbling away now) add shallots or onions, red wine and garlic (mushrooms or wild mushrooms for a change) and reduce to a syrup and you have a lovely accompaniment to steak or lamb. Add a bit of red currant jelly (or jam) if it’s not sweet enough.
I boil fish and shellfish bones/heads/shells too and use white wine or vermouth and finish with cream. Stale or sweet or frankly rubbish wine makes very little difference.
Clearly, if it’s gone rancid throw it away, but if it’s just not to your taste, give it a go.

I opened this thread to make a glib comment about there being no such thing as crap wine…

Won a bottle of blossom hill…

Oh dear. Keep it for those occasions when you need a quick gift for someone you barely know or to contribute to a raffle or something? Don’t waste food on it. 😀

Make an Old Spanish?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/old-spanish-drink-mad-men-30-rock_n_3138867

Gotta be sangria.

[controversial opinion]Stuff cooked with wine tastes a bit horrible[/controversial opinion]