Selling bottles past printed date.

[poohshunny]

I posted this in shopping last night. Thought I would try posting it here too. I'm looking for some advice from anyone who might know where I stand on this matter. I work in an off licence shop. For the past 2 weeks we have received in our delivery, 2 cases of a well known cheap wine like drink. The date printed on the bottles is 23/03/07. It doesn't state 'best before' or 'use by', just the date. Generally wine bottles don't have dates on them. The boss is away at the moment. The assistant manager keeps putting them out on sale. Every time I do a shift, I remove them from sale, as I don't think it's right to sell them. The assistant manager has told the staff that after phoning other stores, that this is the date it was bottled. I personally don't think any calls were made! Any suggestions?

[Ethel]

Some wine is better for keeping, a lot of wine is several years old.

Wine can be stored in barrels for many years and then bottled - I think the date you refer to is the bottling date.

It is perfectly fine to sell them.

[dzug]

It's entirely possible that the date is a bottling date, not a sell/use by date. Quite common with some beers, though I've not seen it with wine before.

I'd not worry about it - it's not your personal responsibility anyway

[Seafarer1966]

It's not Thunderbird fortified pear wine is it. Christ I nearly lost my liver drinking that poison when I was a student

[poohshunny]

It is Cassini, an even cheaper version of Lambrini! The Cherry Lambrini bottles have BB dates on of Sept 2009. Thats what makes me think it is not a bottling date on the Cassini bottles. The only bottling date I know of in our shop is on the Budweiser. That has a 'born on' and 'best before' date. Thanks for your answers.