For the uninitiated, I should add that a box of wine costs $18 to $22 and is the equivalent of four bottles.
If I buy wine by the bottle, I usually aim for somewhere around $10 (lately, even less). So a box is approximately half the cost of what I'd consider decent bottled wine.
I have never been much of a wine drinker. I don't DISLIKE it though. I love sweet red wines. When I do buy wine, it's always in a bottle, although I've been very curious about those boxed wines. Many people buy their wine like that.
So, I voted "maybe"
I voted "yeech". I like wine, but only if it's very good. People ask me if I like wine, and if I say I do, they buy me a glass of wine that tastes like mouthwash and vinegar or buy a bottle for 9 bucks on sale for a party and then wonder why I avoid it. Most of the wines I like start at $100 a bottle and go up in price.
I'm not a wine drinker, but I will say that wine from a box just seems ...........wrong. :laugh:
I'm not a wine drinker, but I will say that wine from a box just seems ...........wrong. :laugh:
Most of the wines I like start at $100 a bottle and go up in price.
I don't drink $100 wine, not only because I can't afford it but because I don't want to be exposed to it and find that's the only kind I like, too. I'd rather just be obliviously content with cheaper wine.
In my efforts to trim my household budget, I have started buying the occasional box of wine. I can't say it's delicious, but it's probably no worse than any other wine that would sell for $5 or $6 a bottle, which is approximately what boxed wine works out to be.
I would not drink it with a fox. :P
Oh, Katherine. ... :'(
When someone of your taste and education starts drinking wine from a box, it's the end of civilization as we know it. :'(
At least you could buy it in bottles with screw caps!
Me, I would not drink it from a box. I would not drink it with a fox. :P
Well, thanks for the implicit sort-of compliment. I certainly don't want to be responsible for the end of civilization! :laugh:
And I DO buy wine with screw caps. I much prefer them, actually. If I'm in the store trying to decide between two different wines and one has a screw cap, that's the one I pick. From what I've read, there's no reason not to -- oenophiles have given them the A-OK. Much of the wine from Australia and NZ, especially, seems to be screw-capped these days.
Boxed wine, I'll admit, is not up there in quality with screw-capped wine.
The bottle of wine Ennis takes out here... was there a screw-cap on it or was it sealed with a wad of plastic wrap? I seem to remember it was the latter.
A vital question for oenophile Brokies!
I especially like cheap reds from the south of France, like Rhones, or cotes de provence, or languedoc. Very drinkable. Save the expensive wine for a special occasion.
I went to a party where the host had made his own wine (they have places where you can go make "homemade" wine, beer, mead, etc. A new yuppie hobby, I guess...) Anyway, his wine was a revelation because in addition to being delicious, there was no headache!! (No preservatives.) Whoo-whee!!
Me too, although I still get "red-wine headache" often. (Less so with French than the CA wines.)
I went to a party where the host had made his own wine (they have places where you can go make "homemade" wine, beer, mead, etc. A new yuppie hobby, I guess...) Anyway, his wine was a revelation because in addition to being delicious, there was no headache!! (No preservatives.) Whoo-whee!!
:)
It's not that new a hobby. My father briefly was into homemade winemaking in the '70s. It was very, very awful.
Laura, I wonder now that there are so many organic wines available, if they're less headache-ogenic? My local joint has only organic wines on its list.
A new yuppie hobby, I guess
It's not that new a hobby. My father briefly was into homemade winemaking in the '70s. It was very, very awful.
Laura, I wonder now that there are so many organic wines available, if they're less headache-ogenic? My local joint has only organic wines on its list.
I went to a party where the host had made his own wine (they have places where you can go make "homemade" wine, beer, mead, etc. A new yuppie hobby, I guess...) Anyway, his wine was a revelation because in addition to being delicious, there was no headache!! (No preservatives.) Whoo-whee!!
It's not that new a hobby. My father briefly was into homemade winemaking in the '70s. It was very, very awful.
It's not that new a hobby. My father briefly was into homemade winemaking in the '70s. It was very, very awful.
Italians in South Philadelphia have been making their own wine for, oh, probably about a hundred years. (I'm not kidding.)
Off topic, but I've had homemade beer that was very, very good!
My husband used to make homemade beer, and it WAS good. As good as most microbrewery beer, and far better than the big American brands. He had only one off batch: the recipe called for adding oak chips to simulate a cask-aged flavor, but the resulting beer tasted way too much like oak. We called it woodbrau and drank it anyway.
Glad to know you didn't waste it.