I don't know a lot about wines , not being a drinker of alcohol , hardly
The following was dug up by er indoors yesterday - given to us / won in raffles , over past years
If fact I recall us buying two bottles of wine , when we visited a winery on holiday some years ago - Cyprus - I think it may be the Bluehill Valley ones below .
- Cromwell Cream - Fortified British wine - best drunk within six months of purchase or within 3 months of opening
- Bluehill Valley - Soave - 2006
- Bluehill Valley - Pinot Grigio Blush - 2006
Anything with an alcohol content above 16% is likely to be drinkable although the flavour will perhaps have altered/deteriorated. Wines between 8% and 13% will change over time and most ordinary retail wines will eventually become quite unpalatable, but that will safely come to light on tasting. The vast majority of wines sold in the high street will deteriorate fairly rapidly after 5 years of storage in anything but ideal conditions, some before that.
Only the whisky, the wines weren’t suitable for laying down and even if they had been if they haven’t been stored correctly chances are they’d be duff and as for the British ‘Sherry’...
The whisky would be ok as a mixer, it's not good enough to drink on its own. if it's been kept cool the wine should be ok for cooking or mulling keep the rest for slug or wasp traps in the summer.