How long doesRed winelast in the fridge once opened?

What opening the package actually costs

Opening the package is the decision that settles this page. Sealed, the item holds 5 years in the pantry; once open it holds 3 days open in the fridge, the same food measured in days instead of years, a drop of 608 times.

Every storage figure the USDA publishes for this item

The USDA gives this item a pantry and a refrigerator figure and no freezer figure at all, the pattern behind 79 of the 466 foods in the data.

• In the pantry3 years to 5 years
• Once opened · in the fridge1 day to 3 days

What the USDA adds in words

The USDA attaches 1 handling note to this item, reproduced below word for word. It is not a storage time: it qualifies the figure above rather than replacing it. These are the source's own sentences, not ours, and they are the part of the FoodKeeper record that a table of durations cannot carry.

In the pantry. Dark, away from direct heat or sunlight.

Turning the range into a date

Two clocks run on this item: one from the day it went into storage and one from the day the seal broke. Both are listed below, 2 rows in all.

• In the pantryUse by3 years to 5 years after the day you stored it
• Once opened · in the fridgeUse by1 day to 3 days after the day you opened it

Is this window about safety or about taste?

The answer at the top of this page reads 1 day to 3 days in the fridge once opened. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Red wine is acid, dry, sweet, alcoholic or pure fat. Past it, judge it by look and smell: this window rates how good the food will be, not the day it becomes a hazard.

Every figure assumes the food was sound when you stored it, that your refrigerator holds 40 °F or below and your freezer 0 °F or below, and that the package was handled normally.

It is past the date. Now what?

Say the calculator above puts Red wine past its 1 day to 3 days in the fridge once opened window. Past that the calendar stops deciding and the food itself does. Fizzing that should not be there, cloudiness, floating strands or a sour smell mean it goes out whatever the date says.

The FoodKeeper entry this page is built from prints storage times and nothing else, so anything past them here is USDA and FSIS guidance rather than a figure from the source. The whole rule, including the cases the source does not cover, is set out under what to do when the date has passed.

Is that a long time?

2 items in the Beverages list keep exactly as long as this item, 5 years, so they all share place 1 of 22 rather than being put in an order the data does not support. Among the 340 foods the USDA also gives a refrigerator figure, it keeps longer than 10% of them.

Items that behave the same way

Every one of the 6 nearest items keeps the same or less, 18 months to 5 years against the 5 years of this item, which makes it the durable end of the cluster.

• Nutrition supplement drinkskeeps exactly as long
• Teakeeps 6 months in the pantry once openedbags · up to 36 months sealed in the pantry
• White winekeeps 1 day in the fridge once openedup to 2 years in the pantry
• Coffeekeeps 1 month in the fridge once openedcommercial ground, non-vacuum · up to 2 years sealed in the pantry
• Diet powder mixes and drink mixeskeeps 1 month in the pantry once openedup to 24 months sealed in the pantry
• Nectar, papaya, mango, guava, or guavabanakeeps 12 months sealed in the pantry

Products the USDA rates in the same places

Only 3 other products in the whole file carry the same set of rated places as this one, pantry and refrigerator after opening: White wine, Seafood and Tomato sauce. That is 3 products out of 466, which makes this a rare shape of record rather than a common one, and it is worth knowing that the comparison below is drawn from a very small group. Of the ones shown, none keeps longer than this one does. The longest-keeping of them is White wine at 2 years.

• White wine1 day in the fridge once openedup to 2 years in the pantry
• Seafood1 day in the fridge once openedup to 1 year in the pantry
• Tomato sauce3 days in the fridge once openedspaghetti, pizza

Closest by shape, but not an exact match — they share most of these places, not all of them.

• Nutrition supplement drinks2 days in the fridge once openedcanned · up to 5 years sealed in the pantry
• Coffee1 month in the fridge once openedcommercial ground, non-vacuum · up to 2 years sealed in the pantry
• Lime juice2 months in the fridge once openedup to 18 months sealed in the pantry
• Lemon juice2 months in the fridge once openedup to 18 months sealed in the pantry
• Vegetable juice18 months sealed in the pantryshelf-stable

The rest of the Beverages shelf

Nothing else on the Beverages shelf keeps longer outside the freezer than this one. The other 21 products there run down from Nutrition supplement drinks at 5 years to Soda at 3 days, and the ones nearest this product by window are Nutrition supplement drinks, Tea and White wine. That makes this page the top of its own shelf rather than a middle entry. Across the whole of Beverages the same product ranks 1 of 22. The middle of the shelf is Yuzu juice, at 12 months.

• Nutrition supplement drinks5 years2 days in the fridge once opened
• Tea36 months6 months in the pantry once opened
• White wine2 years1 day in the fridge once opened
• Coffee2 years1 month in the fridge once opened
• Diet powder mixes and drink mixes24 months1 month in the pantry once opened
• Nectar18 months12 months sealed in the pantry
• Lime juice18 months2 months in the fridge once opened
• Lemon juice18 months2 months in the fridge once opened

If it has to keep longer than this

Nothing the USDA files under Beverages keeps at least twice as long as this one outside the freezer. It runs the other way: 19 entries in the category keep half as long or less, among them White wine, Coffee and Diet powder mixes and drink mixes. So the question this page answers is not what to buy instead, but what this product outlasts on the same shelf, and by how much. Twice as long is the cutoff used here, so a product a few days apart from this one is not treated as a step.

• White wine2 years1 day in the fridge once opened
• Coffee2 years1 month in the fridge once opened
• Diet powder mixes and drink mixes24 months1 month in the pantry once opened
• Nectar18 months12 months sealed in the pantry
• Lime juice18 months2 months in the fridge once opened
• Lemon juice18 months2 months in the fridge once opened
• Vegetable juice18 months18 months sealed in the pantry
• Coconut water12 months1 day in the fridge once opened

The record this page is built from

This page is built from a single FoodKeeper row, record 462 — the source’s own number for it, not a position — one of the 661 rows in the snapshot. That row fills 2 of the nine storage slots with a time, and the binding figure on it is printed by the source in years, which is the unit this page keeps rather than converting it to days. The record carries 1 handling note, quoted on this page word for word. Every figure here comes from one fixed snapshot, USDA FoodKeeper, retrieved 1 September 2026, and is not refreshed page by page.

Where these numbers come from

Every range on this page is published by the USDA FoodKeeper and reproduced unchanged. The multipliers, the rankings, the percentages and the dates are ours, computed from those ranges. Where the source gives a span such as 3 to 5 weeks, comparisons use the upper figure, and the full span is always printed.

Rankings cover only the items the USDA gives a usable figure for, and identical ranges share a place rather than being ordered arbitrarily. Neighbors are chosen by nearest storage time within the same category, never alphabetically: two foods filed next to each other by name usually have nothing to do with each other. The freezer is excluded from ranking because it flattens almost everything.

Where the USDA lists several kinds under one name, they share one page here and every kind keeps its own windows: the source prints them as separate rows, and a page that merged them would be inventing a figure the source never published. Comparisons and the place in the category are computed for the kind the plain name means — the shell egg for eggs, the can for tuna — which is settled name by name rather than by the order the source lists its rows in, and the page names it. Where the plain name means no single kind, the page prints no single figure at all and lists the kinds instead.

Source: USDA FoodKeeper, retrieved 1 September 2026. This site computes every comparison on this page and takes responsibility for it. Found a figure that does not match the source? Tell us on the contact page, with the page and the row — the parsing is mechanical, so a mismatch is our bug and we want it. How the whole site is built, which figures are ours and where the source can be checked is on the method page.

USDA index terms: red, wine

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