Is Box Wine Good? | The Quality of Wine Available In Boxes Is Increasing

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7 жыл бұрын

Box Wine has gotten a bad rap over the years for some well deserving reasons. Boxes of wine do have their advantages though, like staying fresh when you are only pouring a glass every couple days. Recently a number of companies have been releasing better quality wine in boxes.
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Boxed wine is actually a bag inside the box. A pouch holds the wine and has a tap so you can dispense a glass at a time and keep the rest of the wine fresh. One of the big advantages of boxed wine is just that - you can poor a glass or two and keep the rest of the wine fresh in the bag because the oxygen doesn't get to the wine. Five liter boxes like this Franzia have been around for a while and they are very popular. In part because they are very reasonably priced for the amount of wine you get as well as the ability to keep it fresh.
Wine connoisseurs or people that might enjoy more expensive wine may say that bottled wine is a little bit better quality. For the most part that is true. In order to make these big large boxes, they have to make mass quantity of the wine and any time you are producing something on a very large, mass scale you are going to compromise little bits of quality here and there.
Lately we have had a large surge in the three liter boxed wine category. A handful of companies like Black Box and Bota Box are producing much better quality wine and opting to package it in a bag-in-box format as opposed to a bottle format, because it is a little bit cheaper packaging wise. The cost of the actual cardboard box and the bag that the wine goes in to is lower than the bottles in many cases. It is also much lighter weight, relative to the glass, so shipping the product is a little bit cheaper.
The three liter box category has really been taking off lately. The savings in the packaging costs and the shipping costs translate in to lower price product relative to bottled wine at the same quality level.
So if you are someone who enjoys a glass of wine every couple of days and you don't like the idea of opening a whole bottle, letting it sit there and then dumping it out a few days later then you may want to consider one of these newer brands of boxed wine.
In conclusion about boxed wines - some of the key takeaways are that they are a good format for someone who drinks a glass here and there but does not go through a whole bottle quickly enough. The taps used on the boxed wines allow the wine out without allowing any oxygen to go back in and oxidize the wine.
When you open up a bottle of wine, even if you put the cork back into it, the rest of the wine in the bottle has been exposed to that oxygen and it starts degrading in quality over the next few hours and days. Whereas with the boxed wine, you are not going to get that degradation of the wine still in the bag.
If you know somebody who still drinks one of those large format bottles, like the four liter bottles of wine and it takes them a couple of weeks to get through it, you should recommend that they try boxed wine for that oxidation reason. Those large format bottles, the big jugs of wine that used to be very popular, do not hold up well after they have been open. Whereas these five liter boxes hold up over the course of weeks, or even a couple of months.
So the bottom line is boxed wine has it's place in the wine world. There are some people that really enjoy it for the practicality of being able to pour a glass here and there and not worry about wasting what is left in the bottle. And there is also a growing trend of premium to upper end quality wine being packaged in boxes. So if you are a wine connoisseur or a person that has traditionally snuffed their nose at boxed wine, you should try try one of these out.
Many of them also come in smaller 500 ml boxes - tetra packs. These open just like a normal wine bottle so they do not stay good as long once they are open, but they are a great way to sample the wine that comes in the three liter boxes.
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@MerkinMuffly 6 жыл бұрын

I like cheap wine and expensive beer, give me some Franzia Chillable Red any day. Put it in the freezer until it's almost frozen (give it some tartness) and I can drink on that nectar for half a week.

@roguerunner7553 6 жыл бұрын

To hell with the connoisseurs! I've blind taste tested box wines with expensive bottle wines for decades & in most cases, the boxed was just as good.

@harperhellems3648 2 жыл бұрын

First off, Black Box is good, decent wine. I hesitated trying it for years until recently. I flat out got tired of buying $9-15 bottles of wine, splitting them with my wife and off they go to the trash. I just want a daily, affordable sipper. I go to a grocery Walmart in Waynesboro, Va. and they sell Black Box for $17.99. Think about that. That's 4 bottles of eminently drinkable wine that stays fresh in the bag outside the fridge for 6 weeks! Sold! I'm a believer. Way easier on the environment too.

@redwine0891 5 жыл бұрын

I actually love box wines, but nothing beats red moscato in a bottle. 😊

@mirandaballard1449 3 жыл бұрын

Yes love boxed wine. I have few nice bottles I pull out for anniversary and holidays but regular drinking boxed wine all day.

@ryanramones129 3 жыл бұрын

I love boxed wine. Cheaper than bottled wine lol. Boxed wine last longer and if you drop the bottle it breaks. You can drop the box lol. Kirkland boxed cabernet sauvignon from Costco is really good. The price is $13 equivalent to 4 bottle of wine. The quality is really good.

@allewal 6 жыл бұрын

I just bought my first boxed wine about a week ago after the bottled wine I was buying went up to $12.99 a bottle, so I tried Bota Box wine and it's less expensive !

@macgyverdallas9444 4 жыл бұрын

I like this guy. Keep doing your videos. I'm sharing to my wine blog!

@michaelparness2896 2 жыл бұрын

I saw the Franzia and then the Barefoot behind you and I got flashbacks from college. 😂

@packer812 3 жыл бұрын

There are some good boxed wines out there. My favorite is a 100% Sangiovese called "Bibi Graetz Rosso Toscana" which is a great everyday wine, and also the McManis Petite Sirah from Lodi, California is very good. I am happy to buy boxed wines if I find a good one, as they can be very good value and are extremley practical.

@JoseRodriguez-tb1js 4 жыл бұрын

Yes I like them, they work very good. I was pleasantly surprise.

@agungwayne3090 3 жыл бұрын

Love it.

@creeperhinojosa9739 3 жыл бұрын

Great information

@poopypooppoop1042 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t really like drinking wine (i prefer vodka, beer, tequila, hard seltzer etc) but sometimes i do like to have a good box of red wine. Can’t drink white though because it makes me a dangerous sociopath.