Without knowing which varietal you're looking for, I can generally recommend the "Black Box" line, which I believe is widely available in most of the US. I have the most experience with their Cabernet Sauvignon. It's nothing earth shattering, but if your goal is to just have wine on hand to accompany your regular meals, without worrying about quick spoilage, it is perfectly adequate.
I've also heard some good things about Hardy's boxed wines, FWIW.
- Chris
The California box wine I've liked the box is Black Box.
It's not bad, but don't expect it to be the equal of fine bottled wines.
Hi all,
I was wondering if someone can recommend some good box wine that can be found in Southern California?
Thanks much,
fei
Depends on what you mean by 'good'.
Yeah of course you are right. I suppose by "good" I mean decent wines considered drinkable with everyday meal by people on this list...
and thanks Chris Sprague and Ken Blake for your prompt replies.
Aside from the suggestions offered already, you might want to do a Google. Groups search for "box wine" in this NG. Over the last two years, there have been several threads, with a lot of recommendations. I cannot vouch for any of them, however, as the last b-in-a-b wine that I had was something called " Matilday Bay," (seems that it had quite a bit of Muscat and Viognier, IIRC the nose correctly), and that was decades ago.
Hunt
Probably because a large bottle, used at the rate of a glass a day, will spoil WAY faster than the same wine in a box.
Decant that large bottle into splits. Label them.
Jose
Jose wrote on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:45:25 GMT:
??>> Probably because a large bottle, used at the rate of a ??>> glass a day, will spoil WAY faster than the same wine in a ??>> box.
J> Decant that large bottle into splits. Label them.
J> Jose
IMHO, it's simply not worth the trouble to rebottle and seal. Wine suitable for informal meals is readily available in boxes from Australia and California and it does keep quite well.
James Silverton.
] Jose wrote on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:45:25 GMT: ] ] ??>> Probably because a large bottle, used at the rate of a ] ??>> glass a day, will spoil WAY faster than the same wine in a ] ??>> box. ] ] J> Decant that large bottle into splits. Label them. ] ] J> Jose ] ] IMHO, it's simply not worth the trouble to rebottle and seal. ] Wine suitable for informal meals is readily available in boxes ] from Australia and California and it does keep quite well. ]
The Bag-in-Box works really well, and keeps the wine very fresh for several weeks without any hassle at all. Just pour in pitchers as necessary.
Here in France there is a wide variety available in this format.
-E
Black Box; it's a good value for the money.
Dana
Hey...'BoxedWine' !!!....You mean 'Cask' Wine my friend !...I buy top quality one's all the time here in good ol' Oz !!
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