Upside down wine

[asnitow]

I had some rather old bottles shipped to me and they were labeled/packaged upside down. So now, there is a large plug of sediment in the necks. If i want to drink them in the coming weeks, what should i do?

Lie them on their side and expect the sediment to dissolve back into the liquid?
Store them upside down as they were and try to fish out/clean out the plug when i pull the cork / strain the wine when i pour it?
Store them standing up and see if the sediment falls back in, or dries out, or whatever?

Anyone had a similar experience or advice for me?

thanks
alan

[mike_pobega]

Should be no issue. Many a wines are placed in the cardboard cases like that.
Just do a light rotate to loosen, put upright for a day and then store as you normally would.

[ClarkstonMark]

First shake them vigorously to dislodge the sediment from the neck.
Then, store on side or standing, at your preference

[Wes_Barton]

I know a winemaker (Henry McHenry) who stores and subsequently opens his bottles upside-down. Not something I would try myself, but as the cork pops out he flips the bottle up, so just the sediment is disgorged. Graceful when he does it. Not the word, I imagine, for what I’d do.

[Kevin_M_L]

@Wes Barton

I know a winemaker (Henry McHenry) who stores and subsequently opens his bottles upside-down. Not something I would try myself, but as the cork pops out he flips the bottle up, so just the sediment is disgorged. Graceful when he does it. Not the word, I imagine, for what I’d do.

This is how it would look if I tried that.

[Andrew_Morris]

@Wes Barton

I know a winemaker (Henry McHenry) who stores and subsequently opens his bottles upside-down. Not something I would try myself, but as the cork pops out he flips the bottle up, so just the sediment is disgorged. Graceful when he does it. Not the word, I imagine, for what I’d do.

+1

This is what we do wit library wines

Works like charm

You only lose a sip

We are NOT good enough at predicting when we will get the idea to drink an older bottle

[alan_weinberg]

@Wes Barton

I know a winemaker (Henry McHenry) who stores and subsequently opens his bottles upside-down. Not something I would try myself, but as the cork pops out he flips the bottle up, so just the sediment is disgorged. Graceful when he does it. Not the word, I imagine, for what I’d do.

dégorgement is the term for this. As noted by Clarkston, shake vigorously the bottle to dislodge, then store as usual.