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1. Because it preserves the wine – Secured in a vacuum sealed bag the system preserves the wine an average of 4-6 weeks eliminating the need to consume the wine upon opening.
2. Because it’s cost effective – At $18-$24 a box for 3 LITERS in the current economic climate, box wine is an ideal option for everyday wine consumption.
3. Beacuse it’s eco-friendly – Made with recycled materials box wines stay ‘green’ after your last sip. Tetra paks wines ( 1 liter or smaller) use less energy to make than glass bottles and if 2.4 billion liters of wine were converted to Tetra pak the environmental impact would be equal to removing 377,000 cars from the highway.
4. Because everyone’s doing it – Outside the US box wine has a strong following particularly in Australia and a 30% market share in Sweden with both France and Italy embracing the box with 70% of French wine drinkers saying that would offer box wine to guests and the Italian government offering its quality rating to box wine.
5. Because it’s good – Box winemakers like Black Box source their grapes from well established wine regions. While the finer vintages may reserved for the bottle these winemakers consider the box to be an everyday alternative.
The Crush and Mash Recession Buster Box Wine Tasting takes place tonight, Friday, January 30th from 6pm to 11pm at Dragonfly Neo-V and On The Fly. For more information, please visit DragonflyNeoV.com.
I have been described by some as “a wine snob”. I drink a fair amount of wine.
I have a box of Black Box cab sauv sitting on a shelf in my kitchen as I type this.
It’s decent stuff. It’s objectively a better wine than a lot of wines you’ll find in bottles. It Pairs well with BBQ, pizza, and other every day occasions.
It keeps for a fair time without oxidizing, so you can keep “wine on tap” at home very easily. It stays fresh longer than a Vac-u-vin sealed bottle.
Block was even better, but they stopped producing. Bota Box is ok too, but I thought their cab was not quite as good as the Black Box.
BTW: You can’t see the packaging when all you see is a nice glass of wine in your hand, so just get over it.
Had a great meal @Dragon Fly on Friday night and I had a sip of the boxed cab. It was fine. My body didn’t violently convulse or anything. :)
Though, I still prefer bottles. I’m still and probably always will be a sucker for presentation – waste and all.
I was skeptical myself, but I’m pleasantly surprised. Thanks for trying it out. And the boxes are for sale at ON THE FLY.
nothing like impressing your date with some boxed cab!
Picked up a box of wine from World Market yesterday and it is not bad. Also, the price was right. $14. for 3L that is less than $4/bottle. The only trick part was the bag was placed in the box backwards so we had to open the whole box up and trun the bag around to get the spout on the right side.
One other note is the environmental cost of shipping it is also reduced since the weight is less.
I impressed my date. And the packaging is actually very cool. Eventually you’ll catch up. As I said I had my doubts. I’m a serious wine snob. I think nothing about dropping a couple of c notes on a fine champagne, burgundy, or old rioja.
Here’s a quote from the back of the Black Box cab “OUR STORY”
While in Europe, I was surprised at the popularity of boxed wines. Turns out that Europeans, who typically drink quality, have been drinking high-end boxed wine for years. They’ve forgone the expensive bottle for what counts most: Fine wines at a superior value.
I thought Americans deserve the same. So I created Black Box Wines for you-the enthusiast who enjoys wine on a regular basis. “
I bought the Pinot Evil for Sat. night and it was a hit. The box even looks nice and it’s French. Classy box wine: who’d have thought?
boxed wine will be the official drink of I heART
There is someone else in town who digs old Rioja? Who knew?
As I have said before Black Box Chard has been a winner at the Columbus Food and Wine Affair judging, including in my panel one year where I gave it good marks. Clean and crisp and honest – better than 90% of the overly-manipulated bottled ones.
My main problem is the lack of diversity. All varietally-labelled wines and not more interesting AOC wines. Partly a me-problem, but I also think that European regs require that such wines be bottled. The packaging technology is also too expensive for small producers.
Given the rates of cork taint and seal failure, more wines that are not cellaring wines should be boxed.
A.
“boxed wine will be the official drink of I heART”
If I can help out with that please let me know.
Also, Andrew – Yeah, had the Muga gran riserva ’95 for thanksgiving last year at the Peninsula Hotel in Chicago. WOW!
Well, I could be living in a box. Instead, I’m drinking wine.
I’m putting this one in the “WIN” column.
oh remembering college – “wheezin the juice” straight from the bladder! we were classy.