Yellow+Blue Named
BEST-TASTING Box by Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/05/boxed-wine.html
Your initial association with boxed wine may bring you back to your sorority and fraternity days, but times have changed. “The problem with box wine is that the United States screwed up and put really bad wine in boxes,” says “
wine geek” Keith Beavers, of Alphabet City Wine Company, in New York City. “But the boxed wines we are now getting from Europe are awesome.” Here are five reasons why:
1. Taste. “They’re vacuum sealed,” says Beavers, explaining that boxed wine doesn’t oxidize or go bad. An open box will stay fresh for up to three months. “Not like you’ll ever have it open for that long, since it’s so good.” Our vote for the best-tasting box is from Yellow + Blue, an organic wine-maker that produces a Malbec from Argentina and a Sauvignon Blanc from Chile.
2. Eco-friendliness. “Boxes are certainly much greener than bottles,” says David Phillips, of Astor Wines and Spirits, in New York City. They have a smaller carbon footprint because shipping them is more efficient than transporting heavy glass bottles. (Just don’t call the person drinking boxed wine a “lightweight.”)
3. Size. Most boxes are one liter, which is 33 percent larger than a normal wine bottle. This means that you’re getting more bang for your buck, and not wasting your buck on expensive shipping, corks, and glass.
4. Novelty. The half-liter boxes from California wine-maker Bandit is, well, darling. “They’re cute,” says Beatriz Arremony, from New York’s Brix Wine Company. “Mommies drink them with their strollers and call them ‘juice cups.’”
5. Shard-Proof Advantage. We’ve all seen those signs at beaches and hotel swimming pools that say, “No glass bottles.” But who’s ever seen a sign that says, “No vacuum-sealed foil bags encased in cardboard boxes”? You see where we’re going with this, right?
