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A) £5 - if it's for someone else
B) £10 - if it's a normal night
C) £15 - If it's a special dinner or I've done something wrong! 
D) Half an hour - Depends on A, B and C above.
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Depends what the wine is for, and where I am. In a decent restaurant, I might buy a bottle for 15 euro (and immediately regret it due to taste). When making lasagna or stew I'l be adding the cheapest stuff I can find.
One of the bottles of white whine has been opened four months ago; added it to the vinegar bottle. Don't think anyone will drink that in half an hour 
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Red and white wine in bottles that aren't finished: pack'em in 100ml portions (I use a vacuum sealer) and stuff 'em in the freezer (they won't freeze solid as the alcohol lowers the freezing point to much lower than a normal freezer: ethanol freezes at -117C so you'll get a slush, not a cube).
Then for lasagna or stew (or chilli) grab a bag and stick it in. You get a "better quality" cooking wine which does improve the taste of the food and it doesn't turn to vinegar.
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I like white wine vinegar, it has a lot more taste than regular vinegar. Going to give your suggestion a try with some red 
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Your mention of freezing wine triggered a deja vu moment: Back when I was a young lad living in Alaska, my friends and I would go on snowmobile or cross country ski trips for a weekend. We found that if you bought something cheap (like Boone's Farm) you could pour it in a pan, leave it out over night, then pour off the flavored alcohol and get a pretty good hangover. Practical application of cold distillation
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I can not drink wine (doctor says so)... But for cooking a use the best I can and it is mostly over 100 NIS (which is over £20)...
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If you're told to better not drink it, it may be better to not eat it as well.
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It is not about wine - it is about alcohol... After cooking it, the taste is the only thing left, so no problem there...
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For beer you can go to the alcohol-free version, but never heard of alcohol free wine.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: never heard of alcohol free wine.
You can get it: Low & No Alcohol Wine - Tesco Groceries[^]
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Yes, everything that can exist, exists on the internet
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Oh gawd. Rule 34 applies again? 
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Does the low price means low quality? Have you ever tasted it?
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I've not tasted it, but the low price probably reflects the low tax: about £2 of the cost of a £5 bottle of wine in the UK is alcohol tax, which makes them very comparable.
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I just read about the process of making it, and it seems that the taste should be preserved - I may look for it...
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: After cooking it, the taste is the only thing left
That depends on how you cook it, and how long you cook it for:
Alcohol in finished food - Cooking with alcohol - Wikipedia[^]
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I use it with meat and it is over 3 hours, and with chicken in the oven which is over 2 hours, but high temperature...
And I do not eat either...
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You obviously have the wrong doctor.
Mine specifically wants me to have one (or two) alcoholic beverages a day (to raise my HDL) - which is more than I can handle . . . it's the thought that counts.
So just switch and everything will be fine.
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Unfortunately I have gout, and alcohol does nothing good to it...
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I've found good and bad in all 3 categories... the Mrs. is partial to the dry reds from [yellow tail] wines - Great Australian wine[^] which usually fall into "A".
On a related note: The Mrs. and I have made a couple batches of homemade wine in the last year or so. Turned out wonderful.
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about 200 - 1000, comes with a free plane ride to some faraway destination.
(even better when someone else is paying, and it's not as if I'm stupid enough to pretend to be important and pull out a laptop on a flight.)
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actually normally I have the wine to help me nod off.
- comparable alcohol-amount of beer meant getting up to go to the loo,
- tried spirits: coz of plane dehydrating too easy to overdo - no fun on landing: collect bags, customs etc.
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I buy vineyards, not bottles. Much more economical.
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Nothing. I don't drink wine. Not even when it is free.
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