Removing Wine Spills

Welcome to Vine to Wine this is your host Linda Moran and this week we are answering questions from the email. A listener wrote to ask “How can I get the inevitable stain up from the wine that I know will be spilled this year during the upcoming holidays?”

The inevitable holiday red wine spill on the carpet on the sofa wherever, and how to remove it. That is the million dollar question! I have successfully removed and still have faint reminders of many a spilled wine. I do not have one answer because different processes work in one incidence but not in another. Many folks swear by the product Wine Away. I have it in my cupboard, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I like it for splashes rather than dumps. It seems to work best for me on clothes splashes. When I have a spill on a white tablecloth I use those bleach pens. On the carpet – no matter what you use - blot it up thoroughly first before you put your cleaning agent on it. I have read that a combination of liquid dish soap and hydrogen peroxide is the answer. Sometimes it is sometimes it isn’t.  I have heard to use white wine to get out red wine. That has never worked for me but one of my friends swears by it. And she has white carpets! I am sorry to say that I have no one answer. I use different methods for each spill, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.

Remember to send your wine questions to Linda at vine to wine dot net and thank you for joining me on today’s Vine to Wine.