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Ok, this is going to sound totally off the wall, but the question is
genuine.
I have a few bottles of really, really bad wine in the house, gifts
from the uninformed, and nasty prizes from pub quizzes.

Commiz.

Anyhoo. I can recycle the bottles, but I hate to just pour the wine
down the drain if there is any other use I can put it to.

I save such stuff for blending with other evil brews: this one too
sweet? Mix it with the battery-acid one. Pretty bland liquid? Add it to
the sloes after you've decanted the sloe gin, and allow it to steep. You
can add things like spices and dried orange peel and adjust overacidity
with chalk powder (BPC).

Remember - someone's paid the gummint a lot of duty: it's your duty not
to let them get away with it...

It is truly
too awful to cook with - take my word for it.

Agreed - if you're going to cook with wine, you owe it to the dish to
use a passable wine - not yer Lafite or Haut Brion, but a reasonable
claret or burgundy.

Then, suddenly, I
thought: "what about pouring it onto the compost heap?"

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

Is there any reason why I shouldn't?

Yes. (places funnel in mouth and lies down.)

More to the point, would it have
any benefit in terms of accelerating the composting process?

Only having drunk it.

Are
slightly sozzled earth worms and other creepy crawlies more efficient
breaker downers of organic material?

Dead, more like, and if it's as awful as you allege, the word will get
round...

Enquiring minds want to know...

Bring it round here and I'll lay it down for future use. *ANY* wine can
be fettled to make it passable.

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Rusty
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