springhaze

So yesterday's festivities were fun and all but I came home with a casualty...my white tshirt. You see, one of the "perks" of the San Fermin Festival is excesive wine drinking...you do it thru wine boots and they were selling water bottles that hold 1 bottle there. All's good and fine(I filled up my bottle twice...TO DRINK IT) but most people were already emmm tipsy to put it nicely so what they did with theirs was spray people. For the first couple of hours I was there I managed to stay away from the line of fire, only getting a few drops here and there but as time went by my friends caught me off guard while talking and sprayed me from the side
So my shirt is now pink and since it's one of my favorites I want to try and salvage it. So if anyone here knows how to get rid of wine stains or can give me some tricks I'd greatly appreciate it. Here's a peek at how my shirt ended up looking like:

Front

Back

Thanks in advance!

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Daniel_

It's organic, so I'd try soaking in a biological washing detergent.

Depending on the fabric it'd be an option to use a chlorine bleach, but don't make it too strong a solution, or you'll stain the fabric yellowish.

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clavus

First thing to do with wine stains is to pour salt on them (while they are still wet). Too late for that now.

Whatever you do for step 2, use COLD water.

I seem to remember my mom getting wine out a carpet with baking powder.

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Blackthorn

I was in line behind a fellow in Wal-Mart that was buying about a dozen cans of this stuff. I asked him if he had a large stain he was working on. He replied saying that he was a carpet installer and invariably they would leave stains on the carpet during installation and this stuff was the real deal for getting out ANYTHING.

I later bought a can of the stuff just to have it in the house. A short time after that my neice knocks over a glass of red wine at the dinning room table. It goes all over a cream colored cloth seat cover and a beige burber carpet. This stuff "SPOT SHOT" took care of it. We wiped up as much of it as we could using paper towels then used this stuff sprayed on clean paper towels and just dobbed it up. It took some time and some patience but you still cannot tell that wine was ever spilled there. Amazing...

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sipsake

One evening, my wife spilled a glass of red wine on a friends white carpet. The friend had a can of OxyClean (the stuff of infomercial fame) and, not knowing what else to do, we mixed it according to directions and poured it on the stain. The stain turned pitch black...then disappeared. Don't know if it works on anything else, but really did clean out the wine stain.

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Brewmaniac

I second the OxyClean, one night a drunk friend dumped a bottle of red wine on our cream colored couch, my wife mixed up some OxyClean and puff stain gone!

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TopRamen66

Oxyclean ownz all. For a stain that size, I'd mix up a healthy solution of oxyclean and warm water and soak it for a few hours.

Grasshopper Green

I swore by oxyclean when my son was a baby; formula stains are a real pain in the butt. The majority of his clothes came away unscathed, unless they sat for a long time before I could get them to soak.

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