August 3, 2006

Our Inner Hobo Loves Wine Boxes and Jugs

Conventional wisdom has long said that wine from a box isn't worth the foil it's bagged in, and jug wine is equally bad. Luckily, we pay no attention to conventional wisdom and we just found a great article about jugs and wine boxes. Brands include Dtour, Three Thieves, Banrock Station and Black Box; we have a feeling we'll be doing some research of our own if we can find these.

Stick around after the intro to find tasting notes and prices for wines ranging from $10.99 per liter jug to $37 per 3 liter tube (which may sound like a lot but breaks down to be less than $10 per 750ml).

Nothing grates on casual wine drinkers quite like wine snobbery. There is, however, one form of wine snootiness that has long been not just accepted but encouraged: disdain for jug and box wines. Newcomers to oenophilia quickly learn that it is not enough merely to eschew wines like Almaden Mountain chablis and Inglenook white zinfandel—you must trumpet your contempt for them. Suddenly, though, this once-surefire way of exhibiting discriminating taste is no longer such a gimme. That's because something new has arrived at the wine shop: jug and box wines that are actually pleasant to drink.

from Slate

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