Does wine in a box taste worse than wine from a bottle (does the packing cause this)?!
Please but class of wine out of mind. We all know cheap wine is in boxes, but i just want to know the facts
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Not all boxed wines are cheap, in fact many pubs in the UK now sell boxed wines as their house wine, so NO they are not always worse than wine from a bottle
As with all wine it depends on the grape, the weather in the year the grapes were grown, the ground they grew in and the wine maker - NOT on how it is stored
No. In fact, wine in a box stores better than bottle wine because there's no air replacing the wine in the package, the plastic bladder collapses as you empty it, so it's not reacting with oxygen. Box wines last months rather than a week or two and are generally much, much less expensive.
There are nice box wines, not fantastic or anything, but for everyday table wine I like Black Box and Hardy's and hear that French Rabbit is good. They all run about 20-25 a box, so you're paying less than $4 a bottle.
Wine in a box is usually cheap wine.
Buy bottled wine.
It tastes the same as in a bottle it just keeps longer. You get what you pay for though so stay away from the cheap brands.
Wine in a box is easier to bong on the river!! Taste no different then a bottle.
Quality of boxed wine is getting better, I have been told. I quite like it because it is more economical and keeps it's vacuum seal after you dispense it. So you can buy a few liters for 10-15 dollars and then drink a glass at a time by yourself over a couple weeks, or serve a number of people at a party on a budget. Probably makes a great cooking wine too. But for now, I think the consensus is that boxed wine is to bring home and use.
Glass is more proven way to store (and collect) wine over time. But that isn't a fair statement either because glass is pretty much unchanged over centuries, while plastic is in almost perpetual development for different uses. A suitable plastic likely has not been around long enough to see how well it would store a vintage wine. But you know...they store blood, plasma etc in plastic bags too, likely similar to the kind of packaging that is being used for boxed wine...meaning that certain plastics cannot be expected to interfere with the chemistry of the substance inside it. So I bet in the future, it won't be that strange to see the good stuff packaged in plastic lined boxes for all but the collectors and for more ceremonial use.
