Make vinegar out of it. No, I am serious. Here is an article that talks about making wine vinegar by starting with “mother”. I hope this link to www.westcoastwine.net/vinegar.htm works!

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Echoing Bobbie…definitely do the vinegar thing. We make all our own red wine vinegar now, it takes virtually no effort, and it’s delicious.

how do you make the red wine vinigar

You can also use it as a glass cleaner, of course with red wine it might be difficult to keep it off of any surrounding fabric. I’d go with the vinegar option, or just use it for cooking in general.

Use it for cooking. Red wine is delicious when added to beef that will be stewed or when used as a marinade to tenderize beef steaks. Combine with onion or garlic and black pepper. Mushrooms also blend well with the flavour. You can also blend it with lemon juice or vinegar to use as a salad dressing. Sample different mixtures over stronger flavored greens that require a bit more substance. Add garlic or onions/chives and plenty of fresh chopped herbs to taste.

Don’t use it for cooking! If it is so bad it is undrinkable, and especially if it is ‘corked’ as these sound like, it will make the food worse not better.

It should be fine for cooking - wine that is undrinkable still works wonderfully for cooking. I’ve done just that with some truly terrible wines I’ve been given!

Add it to the compost heap!

If it tastes bad to drink it will do nothing for your food. Cut your losses and buy better wine next time.

Maybe use the reds to lightly dye fabric and use the bottles for making herbed vinegars?

save the bottles and make your own wine!

Dilute it considerably and use to water plants? Not sure about this one, but it might work!
Or you could perhaps boil it in pans/kettles to clean them?

no recycle-save your bottle !!

Use sweet red wine to get rid of those little black flies that you sometimes get at home. They love it and will dive right in

Use the wine bottle as a candle holder.

I’ve got a collection; they look great when different coloured candles are used, and the wax melts down the neck.

With the wine, add some water, freeze it and make it into coloured ice cubes!! Fun!!