Box wine - Yay or Nay?
Box wine - Yay or Nay?
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Box wine - Yay or Nay?
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Post #1 - February 9th, 2008, 5:45 pmI'm liking the box wine thing, I keep a box of Black Box Cab in the pantry for when I just want a glass of red. (Well, it's just me & the girl child in the house, so sometimes opening a bottle would be a waste, especially during the week. Not to mention it's quite economical...like 89 cents a glass!)
I know a lot of people still equate box wine with those awful Almaden boxes.....but I think box wine is great! I have often though of placing a box of white in the freezer overnight before toting it to the beach...seems it would be easiest to manueuver on the sand.
What say you?Last edited by Liz in Norwood Park on February 9th, 2008, 5:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.I can't believe I ate the whole thing!
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Post #2 - February 9th, 2008, 5:55 pm
We solve this by buying a lot of half bottles. There's good box wine to be had, just not in the us. A lot of really nice wine is sold in south america in boxes, though for the price i'll just drink my wine from a bottle thank you.Liz in Norwood Park wrote:I'm liking the box wine thing, I keep a box of Black Box Cab in the pantry for when I just want a glass of red. (Well, it's just me & the girl child in the house, so sometimes opening a bottle would be a waste, especially during the week. Not to mention it's quite ecomonomical...like 89 cents a glass!)
I know a lot of people still equate box wine with those awful Almaden boxes.....but I think box wine is great! I have often though of placing a box of white in the freezer overnight before toting it to the beach...seems it would be easiest to manueuver on the sand.
What say you?
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Post #3 - February 10th, 2008, 7:51 amLove the concept but have yet to find a red or a white that makes me want to have 3L in the 'fridge or pantry.
as far as leftover wine goes... I purchased a bunch of 375ml and 187ml
screwcap bottles and when I open a 750ml bottle and know I'll not be finishing it in one night, I'll open the bottle and pour off 1/2 or 3/4's of the bottle in to various smaller bottles (right to the top) and then place them in the fridge. If I think of it, I'll write the name of the wine on the bottle with a sharppie or on some tape. More often than not, I'll have a "mystery" wine a few days or weeks later....
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Post #4 - February 10th, 2008, 1:09 pmI've had decent luck with the Three Thieves label of wine, and I've generally found that Cellier des Dauphins' Côtes-du-Rhône (3L for ~$20) is good. I pick this up at Sam's. I've heard that they have another good, french red called Cuvée de Peña, but I haven't managed to try it out myself.
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Post #5 - February 10th, 2008, 5:20 pmI love the concept, and would like to have an ecologically sound way of doing it at home with leftover wine
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Post #6 - February 10th, 2008, 6:00 pmdanimalarkey wrote: I've heard that they have another good, french red called Cuvée de Peña, but I haven't managed to try it out myself.
The Peña red is OK, I've asked the importer, Dan Kravitz (Hand Picked Selections) for a white but nothing yet....
FWIW the Three Thieves products I've seen are boxed wine (tetra-pak) but not the kind of box wine with the internal bladder of wine that keeps air contact to a minimum.
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Post #7 - February 11th, 2008, 12:53 pmmhill95149 wrote:danimalarkey wrote: I've heard that they have another good, french red called Cuvée de Peña, but I haven't managed to try it out myself.
The Peña red is OK, I've asked the importer, Dan Kravitz (Hand Picked Selections) for a white but nothing yet....
FWIW the Three Thieves products I've seen are boxed wine (tetra-pak) but not the kind of box wine with the internal bladder of wine that keeps air contact to a minimum.
I agree that the Pena red (sorry - don't know how to input the tilde) is fine, maybe slightly better than OK for me, but it's hard to gauge how much I'm giving it a break because I know it comes from a box and usually boxed wines stink.
Even if we could get excellent wines in a box, my sentiment about them is that I don't think I'd want 3L of one wine in my fridge. So I guess I'm in the "nay" category. (Plus it takes up too much room in the wine fridge.)
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Post #8 - February 11th, 2008, 5:13 pmWe use the Black Box cabernet and chardonnay. A half-liter carafe makes a good serving for the two of us for an everyday dinner especially since we tend to drink all of a bottle once it is opened. The box is also good for drawing the right amount of wine for cooking.
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Post #9 - February 22nd, 2008, 11:57 amHi,
WBEZ Chicago Amplified hosts a podcast of Culinary Historian's 25 Years of Great Chicago Cooking and Drinking. If you go to this podcast, then forward to approximately 48:45, there is a discussion on wine closures by Barbara Glunz from the House of Glunz Wine Shop.
Regards,Cathy2
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Post #10 - February 22nd, 2008, 11:45 pmI like boxed wine for cooking purposes only. It's great to have wine on hand when you only need a dash to deglaze a pan sauce.
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