Such a thing as a good box wine?

[al2n]

Just wondering if there is any such thing as a good box wine. I find that I do not finish off a bottle before it starts to turn, so a box wine would be better for me if there were a good one out there. The ones I have tried in the past have been just plain horrid.

Suggestions? Or does what I seek not exist?

[KC2UGV]

I got nothing. Never tried a box wine I like. What I do is get smaller bottles. If you recork the bottle, you can finish it of the next evening, and it's not too bad; as long as it isn't a white.

--EDIT--
I've also heard about mechanical "recorking" of a bottle, which also sucks the oxygen out. Not sure how that fares.

[kc7jty]

I wouldn't touch wine in a box, in fact I'm leery about wine bottles with rubber corks but I now have a few aging in my stash, so I will see.
The vacuum kits are highly touted, but I just put opened wine in the fridge and find it actually improves over the next 3 to 4 days. Don't think I ever went over that though.

[al2n]

Black Box Wine got suggested to me by a neighbor, so I picked up a box about an hour ago.

It is no too shabby. Not the horrid stuff I have tried in the past. Will have to try the Merlot next. Bought the Riesling this time around.

[kc7jty]

Of all the wine in the world I like grape the best. :agree:

[W3WN]

Just wondering if there is any such thing as a good box wine. I find that I do not finish off a bottle before it starts to turn, so a box wine would be better for me if there were a good one out there. The ones I have tried in the past have been just plain horrid.

Suggestions? Or does what I seek not exist?

No. There's a reason why cheap wine in a box is, well, cheap wine, in a box.

Sorry, wish I had a better answer for you. But I will second the motion of trying to buy the smallest bottle possible. It may cost more per unit, but if you factor in the value of what gets wasted from the big bottle, you may come out ahead.

[n2ize]

I generally don't like wine. However, I have tried "Franzia" red box wine and I must say it is not bad. Dry, full bodied, flavourful. Reminds me of the local wine my Grandfather used to get.

But that's just me. In general I really can''t stand wine...even expensive wine generally nauseates me. I can tolerate beer a bit better but I generally can't stand beer either.

I prefer straight whiskey or straight vodka.

[kc7jty]

try gasoline

[X-Rated]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm


Gasoline. :homer:

[W5GA]

Almaden Cab isn't too bad....at least it's better than the rest.

[nx6d]

no.

[kc7jty]

had a bot of this last week.
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2005, it had some economy characteristics in the mix but pushing full bodied and nicely oaked. it had a rubber cork.
not bad for $6.29 on sale (regularly $8).
do the box wines have any oak?

[n2ize]

My conclusion. Boxed wines are not bad. For the price they give plenty of bang for the buck. Flavor, full bodied taste and, the wine stays fresh in the mylar bag inside the box.

[suddenseer]

I am not a wine snob, but even a man with no class avoids wine in a box. Unless of course the box contains 12 bottles :dance:

The best tasting cheap wine I ever had was '2 buck chuck' Charles Shaw. It is cheaper than ripple but wins blind label contests.

[KG4CGC]

Box wine bags are great for making that Halloween IV bag for those times when you choose to do the hospital patient get up.

[W3MIV]

A bunch of years back, several families would get together and we'd rent a big house in Duck, NC, for a week in late Sept. One of the guys used to buy wines in boxes, and he swore by the stuff. Wouldn't touch it then; won't touch it now.

kc7jty:
...I'm leery about wine bottles with rubber corks...

Lots of wines have been using composite cork for quite a long while, and the molded plastic corks have been pushing the glued composites aside. Some vintners are even moving to the dreaded aluminum screw caps, and the evidence is that these closures all work as well as the plugs of cork bark we all came to know and love. Only problem seems to be the one of what to do come Halloween.

It's progress, Bill.

[KG4CGC]

Cork. A friend of mine saved all his corks for a time and then displayed them all, on a corkboard, and hung it on a wall in the hallway. Years later he moved to Wisconsin.

Yeah, That was all. There is no real climax to the story.

Now I see these cork displays everywhere from antique shops to home improvement stores sans red wine stains. Yes it's true, they used bastard corks in the mass produced versions.

[W3MIV]

Actually, the newer plastic corks and screw-caps are thought to have a beneficial edge in that they do not shrink if the bottle is not laid on its side. I don't suppose that vintners bottling a "grand vin" will plug it with anything less than the finest Portuguese cork, for tradition rules these folk even harsher than economics. But the fact remains, cork is in increasingly shorter supply around the world, and wine continues to grow in popularity (not least among the wannabe glitterati). One major source of inertia regarding change is probably the cost of switching capping/corking machinery, which would be far higher (relatively) among the small vintners.

The changeover will likely do more to lower the self-esteem of sommeliers around the world than anything else.

[WØTKX]

That's OK, it gets a little snooty sometimes...

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