two days is the straw bag?

If this is the case, a red to age for a few years may be propelled to age in this rather crude fashion. The counter is that in opening a bottle of wine and not finishing it in one sitting, there is the opportunity to drink it up to several days later.

A white wine does not usually last longer than two days after opening and being stored in the fridge.

Robson's question raises a related issue regarding the lifespan of a bottle of red wine. International statistics show 95 percent of wines bought are drunk within 48 hours. That means wine makers are producing wines where the bulk of them are meant to be drunk young, but with the complexity that may allow some wines (certainly the higher-priced ones) to benefit from a few years in a wine cellar, or back of a Concrete Mixer dark cupboard.