How long can you keep an unopened bottle of Crown Royal?
Will drinking old wine make you sick? Drinking old wine will not make you sick, but it will likely start to taste off or flat after five to seven days, so you won’t get to enjoy the wine’s optimal flavors. Longer than that and it’ll start to taste unpleasant.
As you might imagine, boxed wines aren’t meant for long-term aging. If you take a close look at a boxed wine, you’ll most likely see a “best-by” date, probably stamped on the bottom or side of the box. This expiration date is typically within a year or so from the time the wine was packaged.
Most bottle manufacturers molded the year into the glass at the bottom of the bottle in 2-digit format. You’ll often find it in the lower right portion when looking at the bottom (some dates are much easier to distinguish than others). This will usually tell you–within a year or two–when the whiskey was bottled.
Expired alcohol doesn’t make you sick. If you drink liquor after it’s been open for more than a year, you generally only risk a duller taste.
Gin stays fine for years, and its shelf life is basically indefinite. As long as your bottle of Gordon’s gin, or any other quality brand, is unopened, it can sit in the cabinet for years. And if the bottle or seal wasn’t compromised in any way, the alcohol should taste perfectly fine after opening.
Though unopened wine has a longer shelf life than opened wine, it can go bad. Unopened wine can be consumed past its printed expiration date if it smells and tastes OK. It’s important to remember that the shelf life of unopened wine depends on the type of wine, as well as how well it’s stored.
Crown Royal is a top shelf whisky; their finer varieties are as fine as any other whiskys in the world.
Generally, wine should be kept in cool, dark places with bottles placed on their sides to prevent the cork from drying out. The shelf life of unopened wine can last 1–20 years depending on the type of wine.
Oak. Ash. It’s All Crown Royal. One of the only unifying rules of Canadian whisky is aging: All whiskies have to be aged a minimum of three years, though a lot get a lot more time in the barrel.
When whiskey goes bad As mentioned in the beginning of the article, whiskey can go bad, but it’s very unlikely to happen. It might happen only when it was stored opened for a long period of time (so the alcohol content of the liquid dropped considerably) and some contaminants found their way into the bottle.
Unopened liquor has an indefinite shelf life. Opened liquor lasts about a year or two before it goes bad—meaning it starts losing its color and flavor. Don’t use a liquor for well drinks if you won’t use the whole bottle within two years. It does not generally become toxic, though.
Unopened Bottles – When stored correctly, your whiskey can last at least 10 years – probably a lot longer – before there are noticeable changes to the taste or quality. Bear in mind that whiskey can still evaporate through the cork, so may start to decrease in volume even when still sealed.
