A link to a popular essay on boxed wines in yesterday's NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/opinion/18colman.html?em
I'm a big fan of Black Box wine. What you lose in romance you certainly gain back in taste, practicality, and certainly value. Twenty-three dollars per 3-litre box translates to roughly $6 per bottle. Not exactly European prices, but getting closer.
For whites I enjoy Black Box pinot grigio and chardonnay. For reds, I find their cabernet to be really very good. I do not like the shiraz, and I have not tried the merlot.
The article points out the environmental advantages of boxed wine. It costs (per carbon emmissions) half to ship the boxes. Four "bottles" in a box weigh half the equivolent in bottles. There's also less to discard when finished.
It was difficult to make the leap, but at the end of the day I gambled $23 and won.
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- darly gross
- Married to a beautiful, funny woman. I got lucky there. (It's not the one in the picture.) Um... comfortably well-off, compared to many, I suppose. Drive a 15-year old Audi convertible. I have a good selection of guitars. Good cook.
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