Do you think this is ready for drinking yet?

No not yet. Save it for when we get promoted next May

 

Wow. Did mine years back, chief.

 

Whatever you decide, store it correctly pal.

 

Save it for the next time you have fish and chips. Probably be great for sprinkling on meal....

 

Only to be drank upon return to the Premier League, or 2097, whichever is sooner…

 

It's probably going to taste like vinegar after 25 years, hope not though! Like Barnsley, it could be anything.

 

Drunk mine ages ago

 

A very good Merlot may be good for drinking for up to 15 years. I doubt this is that, it'll be relabelled plonk. It won't be good by now, I wouldn't waste your chips.

 

Hope this helps.
https://www.jjbuckley.com/wine-knowledge/blog/3-ways-to-tell-if-your-good-wine-has-gone-bad/1214#:~:text=When stored properly and kept,typically be consumed for decades.
Personally I never drink the stuff.
So what does it matter.
Just give it to guests. Regardless of if it tastes like vinegar. They'll soon tell thi if it does.
Then tell em to bring their own in future. Ungrateful gits.

 

Drank mine a while back too, was good! @Michael Noz

 

Still got mine. Doubt it is quaffable now but don't intend drinking it anyhow.

 

Takes a bit of gumption to save that all these years.

someone asked me the other day how much I usually spend on a bottle of wine. I wasn’t entirely sure so I said about half an hour.

 

https://winefolly.com/tips/red-wine-aging-chart-best-practices/

 

It was bottled by a poster on here who is from Australia and shipped over to help the Administration fund raiser , in its day it was decent , I’m guessing it’s well past it now . Unfortunately there’s a SSN clip of me handing over a large wedge of cash to a certain TT for a case of it

 

This very much feels like we're putting the band back together....

 

My apologies for casting aspersions. Dread to think what that was spent on.

 

We went into administration. Bankrupt, like. There was a supporters dinner and auction. (anybody recall that event).
I sent over twelve boxes of this 'Refuge Bay Oakwell cabernet Merlot' to be auctioned off that night.
Refuge Bay is the cricket team which we started to keep us together when the fooitball season ended. The wine was a McWilliams and they sold it to me as a cleanskin for three quid a bottle. I sampled it, quite a bit, in fact, and I thought it was okay to start and got better.

I sent it over to TT for the auction....

There was also a 'Good Luck Barnsley' Greg Chappell autographed cricket bat. I met the buyer of the bat years ago... nice bloke, turned out to be a mate of a mate.