How long does white wine last

[Sasha13]

In a similar vein to the Babycham question below, if I open a bottle of white and have a glass, how long have I got before I should finish the bottle if I replace the cork and keep it in the fridge? I'm talking about dry whites, if that makes a difference?

[silly moo]

I use one of those rubber stoppers and air extracters then keep my wine in the fridge.
As I'm not a wine buff - just enjoy drinking it - I cannot taste the difference between newly opened and stored for a week.
I'm sure that other people with a better sense of taste will say that is too long.
It certainly doesn't go bad in that time.

[Jackanory]

Just like silly moo I am no expert & just enjoy drinking wine, both fresh and leftover.  My daughter, however, says that we should drink it up once opened and not even save it until the next day because it becomes oxidated. 

Anyway, click on this link & have a read.  I was interested to see what the wine doctor had to say:

http://www.thewinedoctor.com/advisory/buystoreopenbottles.shtml

[Sasha13]

Thank you both! I must admit I've kept wine for a couple of days before now, but was never sure whether it was a good idea. Now I don't need an excuse to polish the bottle off the next day! Thanks again.

[rampart]

I should think you could keep it several days. We usually have some red and white wines around the house, nothing expensive, and they keep just fine. We usually refrigerate the white, but let the red sit on the buffet in the dining room. We always cork the bottles.

Wine should keep fine for a week, I'd say, though I've never really paid the time much attention. Maybe a few days longer. My dad always said keep the bottle corked and tilted so that wine is against the cork when it is being stored. I don't really know why. Perhaps that is to keep the oxygen out. We've always done that and the wine is always fine for quite a while. We seldom throw out wine.

[Artful]

Tthe best way we have found to tell if the wine has seen it's day is well, when wehave a sip before setting doan to it for good! If it's simply "Yeuch! Horror!" it's never wasted - use it for cooking. Anyway it's not going to send you to hosrital, the worst thing is it will give you the most goddawful headache! Anyway I hope it is only your run of the mill plonk you are saving for another day and nothing extraordinary...
The article sent by Jackanory was very interesting.

[hobart]

The advice that I've got from wine courses is that the bottle (either white or red) should really be drunk within one evening, although reds may keep a little longer than whites. If it's reached the correct age to drink, then it's actually starting to deteriorate as soon as you've opened it.

However, in practice it's down to personal taste. If you still think that it's drinkable after a few days then that's fine. Personally, I'm prepared to keep an open bottle (with a stopper in) for a day, but unless I'm desperate I won't normally keep them longer than that. The wife, on the other hand, is quite happy drinking a bottle that's been open 3 or 4 days. With some young red wines, that I've opened too early, I've actually found that they've tasted better on the following night.

[Pinotage]

Alcohol helps preservation, but think of wine as any other packed food that has been opend. It will definitely deteriorate, and I wouldn't drink a bottle that had been opened more than a day. Wine is realatively inexpensive and so enjoyable that I'd rather open a new bottle.

Sweet wine keeps much better because of the sugar, and some young powerful red wines can improve, but delicate white wines will be losing some of their flavours.

[enilorac]

We never have any white wine left but when there is any red I pop it in small pots in the freezer then use it in cooking.