Box Wine?

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:P

I'm not a big wine drinker but I've had box wine before and it's pretty good.

I like box wine...the blush...and Arbor mist. Maybe I don't have a picky pallet, but I don't like the oaky flavors. I like my wine to taste like the fruit it's made from. :shrug:
Duckie

But it still feels "wrong" somehow. Like plastic corks or screw tops.

I've had some good times involving boxed wine. :-)

Glass bottles are heavy and they let light in which causes oxidation and makes the wine taste bad. Glass holds air, so you have to finish the bottle within 24 hours or it is only good for cooking, and that leads to over-indulgence. Boxed wine lasts a lot longer because there's no air, and the less oil used to get a bottle from the vineyard to my table, the better.

Cork leaks air, imparts a weird flavor into the wine and if they get too dry, crumble up and end up in the bottle. Yuck. And they can literally cork the wine (if you've ever had a "corked" bottle, you will never want to drink wine again.)

Plastic corks are better for the wine - no chance of corking and less leakage - but the plastic doesn't recycle, and animals eat it and die, and it takes oil to make plastic.

Screw tops are very good for the wine if they're done right, but it's still a glass bottle and thus heavy.

If I want room-temp reds, I can pour from a box into a decanter and let it warm. Whites do great in the fridge, and the decanter on the table looks pretty.

Black Box is really decent stuff, and I've recently fallen in love with French Rabbit (which comes in a screw-top Tetrapak that recycles like a juice box).

And yes, I do have a picky palette. My second bottle of wine ever was corked, and since then, I've been really careful about what I buy because of it.