The product works on cherry juice, cranberry, and grape stains in addition to red wine, making it useful for households with kids and pets prone to spills.How long should you let Wine Away sit before blotting?

About 5 minutes is effective, though you can adjust based on the stain’s age and severity. Fresh stains respond quickly, while older stains may benefit from longer contact time or repeat applications.It started, as so many things do in this house, with The Dog. Not the wine — the wine was Mom’s, and she’d set it on the coffee table with the reasonable expectation that a glass of Cabernet could sit unattended for thirty seconds while she went to get a coaster, which is a very Mom thing to do, getting a coaster, and which tells you everything about who she is and nothing about who The Dog is. The Dog, in his infinite wisdom, had chosen that exact window of time to execute what I can only describe as a full-body table check, the kind you see in hockey, except the NHL has not yet introduced a border collie division. The glass did not survive. The rug did not escape. Mom returned with the coaster to find a crime scene, a guilty-looking forty-pound animal in the doorway, and me already Googling.Wine Away arrived two days later in a bottle that is, I’ll admit, more cheerful than the situation warranted — bright red label, confident fonts, the word ‘Away’ doing a lot of emotional heavy lifting. Dad picked it up off the counter, turned it over twice, read the back, and said, and I quote, ‘This is the kind of packaging they put on something that works on paper towels in the demonstration but not on your actual rug.’ He said this with the calm authority of a man who once sold a family in Akron a wet-dry vac they definitely did not need. I noted his concern. I also noted that the stain in the living room was roughly the shape of Florida and had been sitting for 48 hours, so we were past the point of brand skepticism.

Report 008102. Filed.