11/14/07 Wine Spills

Welcome to Vine to Wine this is your host Linda Moran and this week the holidays are officially here. Along with that you know will come the inevitable wine spill and you may ask "How can I get the inevitable stain up from the wine that will be spilled during the holidays?" The inevitable holiday red wine spill on the carpet on the sofa wherever, and how do you 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 clothing 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. Good Luck is the best I can offer. 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.