How to remove wine stains from unfinished wood?

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My dad has a wine refrigerator with unfinished wood inside as the holders, and an already opened wine bottle leaked over about a 3 to 4 inch section that’s visible through the glass. Is there any way to bleach this out or another way to fix this? It looks like it soaked through and will be hard to get out, if it’s possible. Thanks in advance for any help :)

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  1. Casey says:
    June 24, 2011 at 2:04 am

    Sanding isn’t going to help because it is probably too deep. The only thing you can do is to try a diluted bleaching solution and hope it doesn’t significantly alter the rest of the rack. Wine can be a really tenacious staining agent and the alcohol helps in fixing it into whatever material it comes in contact with. You could try some carpet cleaner, too because wood is a pretty durable thing and should be able to take what you throw at it. Some woods that are high in tannic acid like oak, redwood, and cedar react with moisture and iron to turn black, so depending on what the rack is made of can be especially difficult to remedy.

  2. DonCarnage says:
    June 24, 2011 at 2:04 am

    Fire … Fire fixes anything that’s made of wood.

  3. ? says:
    June 24, 2011 at 2:04 am

    Try soaking the wood in water for 24 hours, start with very hot water. Should lighten the stain a few shades, rub it vigorously. Another option is possible due to the wood being unfinished, lightly sand area with fine grit sandpaper. Caution… do not use a bleaching agent or get carried away sanding. Do not attempt either of these options unless you are certain the wood is unfinished. Worst case scenario, sand all parts with focus on stain and stain wood a dark color.

    I REPEAT DO NOT USE A BLEACHING AGENT!

    Sanding will help… as the stain travels deeper the color fades.

  4. Anonymous says:
    June 24, 2011 at 2:04 am

    I used an "OxyClean" carpet spot-removing product on a wine spill on carpet the other day, and noticed that as soon as the product touched the wine, the color immediately disappeared (pretty much immediately, and without any scrubbing etc). There was obviously some kind of chemical reaction that seemed to make the wine transparent. It was actually pretty neat…

    If you’ve got any carpet in your house, it might be worth investing in some of this anyway – and if it works on the wood as well…bonus. I think I’ve seen more than one OxyClean carpet product, and I don’t have it handy to check which one it was, but it was the kind where the bottle is actually divided into two compartments for two different solutions, which mix at the nozzle when you actually use it.

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