Wine can be daunting, particularly when cooking. Cooking wine, meant for culinary use, contains preservatives and low-quality grapes, resulting in a salty flavor. While safe to drink, it’s generally not desirable for that purpose. In contrast, drinking wine provides a more complex flavor and is often preferred for cooking. The shelf life of cooking wine is notably longer, with unopened bottles lasting up to five years. It serves mainly as an acid for dish preparation, akin to using vinegar in recipes.
Cooking wine is safe to drink, but it has additional additives and preservatives that alter its flavor to be more salty, made from low-quality grapes.
Many people choose to use regular wine when cooking because it has a more enjoyable flavor and more complex notes that typically work well in a dish.
Cooking wine contains alcohol, which typically cooks off, like drinking wine, but is primarily used as an acid to break down the dish you're cooking.
An unopened bottle of cooking wine can be stored for up to five years while an opened one will be fine for up to a year.
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