Article: White wine and salt? They just make red wine stains worse.

Byline: LECH MINTOWT-CZYZ

IT IS the classic drinks party disaster - an inadvertent nudge and a glass of red wine is spilled over the cream coloured carpet.

Instinctively the host rushes to apply a traditional remedy: throwing a glass of white wine on the stain and then rubbing salt into it.

But now researchers claim such a method is probably a waste of time.

They say that, in some cases, salt and white wine may even make things worse.

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