Wednesday, August 02, 2006
don't box out the wine just yet
I've taken in a bit of box wine in the past couple of years. It's really more bagged and then "boxed." I've tasted some really bad stuff, but have also had some that passes for a good table red -- you can usually get some good tasting wine that was purchased for real cheap, served in a coffee mug, when visiting AA. I wonder if Pepe would react to boxed wine the way he did toward baseball?
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Box wine? Hmmm.... If Pepe were to ever get out of his funk, I'm sure he would react with Gallic hauteur, disdain dripping as heavily as towards the notion of hitting a ball with a stick.
At any rate, this is news to me. Never saw wine in a box. On the other hand, I've seen once a plastic cork, which looked like anathema to me.
I've pulled a few synthetic corks from bottles myself, and some argue that they are better because there's no chance of 'em rotting, deteriorating, and exposing the precious juice to the atmosphere until it's time.
Cork has been used for so long that it'd be difficult to convince vino connoiseurs to change. Winos, on the other hand, aren't too bothered by either plugging method.
What happens when wifey runs out of wine in a box, and hubby tries to interfere.
Yes, prime example ai: this woman would not discriminate between cork, plastic, or synthetic stoppers in wine bottles.
I tried some "boxed" wines when in Houston [for, there, the need for mind numbing depressants was vast]. The upshot was that I found reds were decent enough, whites usually poor, and "mixed" stuff, like a zinfandel or rose', utter chemical scheit.
In principle, plastic bags are just updated versions of wineskins, and plastic jugs the analogue of amphora....is this, then, why the ancients seem to have drunk only red wines? AA
While at it, how about square watermelons? They must go well with wine boxes, yes?
Square watermelons: what a great idea, especially for stacking them when shipping.
aa: that's a good analogy, the wine bladders or skins and the contemporary "bladders" and "skins." This would convince some (not many) wine traditionalists to at least try the stuff.
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