What do I have here? Been given these by my mother.
Apparently the Moët on the left is 1980s and the bottle on the right was given to my grandad when he demobbed at the end of WWII.
Any info would be useful!
by Olirp
3 Comments
KingSolomon1027
You got 2 nice bottles of vinegar
Johito
So others might chime in but non-vintage Moet is designed to be consistent and drunk young. It’s blended from grapes of different vintages (harvest years) and you can keep it for a few years, but it will start to deteriorate after 5 years or so. Vintage Moet will have harvest year listed, some of the years are exceptionally good and they will be called grand vintages (for example 1988) these can last a very long time, but generally need to be stored correctly so temperature and humidity controlled environments, like wine cellars. You could possibly drink them, but I wouldn’t recommend it, at best you’re looking at very flat poor tasting wine, most likely vinegar, though potentially something worse, or you could keep them as an interesting family curio.
flyingron
You can never tell. It might be interesting, it might be flat and oxidized to hell. I suggest having a family tasting party but have some backup bottles if these are undrinkable.
Old wine doesn’t necessarily change to vinegar, it takes a specific bacteria and oxygen, and while it is possible, it’s likely you’ll get other oxidative faults as well or instead.
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You got 2 nice bottles of vinegar
So others might chime in but non-vintage Moet is designed to be consistent and drunk young. It’s blended from grapes of different vintages (harvest years) and you can keep it for a few years, but it will start to deteriorate after 5 years or so. Vintage Moet will have harvest year listed, some of the years are exceptionally good and they will be called grand vintages (for example 1988) these can last a very long time, but generally need to be stored correctly so temperature and humidity controlled environments, like wine cellars. You could possibly drink them, but I wouldn’t recommend it, at best you’re looking at very flat poor tasting wine, most likely vinegar, though potentially something worse, or you could keep them as an interesting family curio.
You can never tell. It might be interesting, it might be flat and oxidized to hell. I suggest having a family tasting party but have some backup bottles if these are undrinkable.
Old wine doesn’t necessarily change to vinegar, it takes a specific bacteria and oxygen, and while it is possible, it’s likely you’ll get other oxidative faults as well or instead.
The good news is it won’t harm you.