Wine in a box?

In which country are you buying?

Until very recently, just about everything available in the USA was terrible. But there are now a couple of fairly decent, if not great, choices. I've liked box wines from Black Box and Banrock Station.

Am I correct in thinking that boxed wines have been common in Australia for some years now? I would add the Hardy's products to the list of drinkable boxed wines: not great but they certainly keep well. They also are not marked "natural and artificial flavors" like Franzia!

I live in California,USA

Rick,

along with other suggestions, I understand that Brocard was offering their "Jurassique" bourgogne blanc in BiB. About $25 for 3L I think. While I haven't had it, their other "near-Chablis" (Kimmeridgien) is usually pretty good, and if you like clean unoaked Chardonnay it would be worth a try. Not available near me, but it was in CA I heard of it. Dale

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] In news:oAMUc.146913$8_6.117131@attbi_s04, ] Rick Dalderis typed: ] ] > Any one taste any of the "wine in a box" wines in the stores ] > now? ] > What's good or bad? ] ] ] Until very recently, just about everything available in the USA ] was terrible. But there are now a couple of fairly decent, if not ] great, choices. I've liked box wines from Black Box and Banrock ] Station. ]

My Dad has enjoyed the Black Box, as recommended by Ed on this ng.

In France there is a large variety of Bag in Box (BiB) available, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. Certainly a good way to preserve quantity for several weeks.

-E

Besides making it available for a glass whenever you want one, it's a good way to have wine available for cooking as needed.

I bought it for $19.00 in Ohio for a 3L box. It's quite good and does well at parties and gatherings. Bi!!

This month's Consumer Reports magazine has a small article on wine in a box. There are about half a dozen boxes rated and some of them were good. There were good boxes from California. Of course living in a small town in Mississippi I found none of them. I will have to check out the supermarkets in Mobile, Alabama the next trip I make to that town.

We've liked the Hardys Cab, also their Shiraz (but the Cab is better in my opinion).

Jim

Here in Ontario Canada I enjoy Chardonnay in a 16L box (thats 21 bottles) for about $73.00 US. That's about 3.50 a bottle.

Cask wines (BiB's) have been an Aussie icon for many years. My first 'red' experience was from a boxed claret in the 70's. Dad offered me a glass as a young fella, to share in his new found 'kulcha'. I did not partake in red wine for another ten years as a result...:>)

Cask wines have come a long way since. The Banrock range you mention above are good, there are other Australian cask wines I consider better. Re-named for export and 'modified' for US consumption result in me not knowing what is what in the US. I do know, there are millions of boxes leaving our shores. The bulk of the grapes for these huge productions are grown in the expanding Riverina areas across the borders of Victoria & NSW. Loads of sunshine, good ripe fruit, hence plenty of the value for money aussie drops wrapped in a local invention, to export to the world. :>)

Hooroo....

got an identifier for that Chard wp?

well.

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You know, I had to sort thro' some older family pictures recently and I was reminded of bringing a (3 liter ?) box from Almaden in 1985 as a novelty for my sister in Britain. It was new to her and she prominently displayed it for a while! When she finally opened it, she said it was not at all bad. One sad thing about the story was that I declared it honestly and had to pay duty because it was over the free limit (g).

A couple of Ontario winerys do larger formats. The 16L Chardonnay I enjoy is produced by Cilento Wines. Magnotta Winery and Colio Winery also do 16 L formats. Available at the winery only, not through provincial distribution and not exported