Wine with your 100LL?

Jay Honeck wrote:

Not being a wine aficionado, I've never understood the snobbery regarding
"wine in a box".

I suspect it has to do with aging. As you know, good wine gets better with
aging. Wine in a box is designed for quick consumption and is not meant to
sit in a low humidity, 64 degree cellar for a few years growing old with
style.

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Peter

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:46:53 GMT, Jay Honeck wrote:

We seldom have wine in the house, but for parties those fridge-sized boxes
are a marvelous invention.

*brrrrr*

we here in the EU now have to allow US wine to be imported ... some of the
US producers mix wine (and don't have to declare it on the label) ... how
disgusting.

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In a previous article, said:
we here in the EU now have to allow US wine to be imported ... some of the
US producers mix wine (and don't have to declare it on the label) ... how
disgusting.

So? Is anybody forcing you to buy it?

Surely that's not as bad as a few years back when it was discovered that
HUGE amounts of Austrian wine being sold over here had anti-freeze added
to make it taste sweeter?


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On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:31:14 +0000 (UTC), Paul Tomblin wrote:

So? Is anybody forcing you to buy it?

no. but I can't make a decision because it is not marked. The product
should have a declaration about the ingredients.

Surely that's not as bad as a few years back when it was discovered that
HUGE amounts of Austrian wine being sold over here had anti-freeze added
to make it taste sweeter?

this wasn't a good thing happening (and it wasn't a regular product, it was
illegal). but IMHO the producers and the govt learned how to avoid future
"mishaps".

#m
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If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
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I can't make a decision because it is not marked. The product
should have a declaration about the ingredients.

You mean, like French wines, where they don't tell you the grape
varieties from which the wine is made, but go on about the place it's made?

Jose
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"Martin Hotze" wrote in message
...
So? Is anybody forcing you to buy it?

no. but I can't make a decision because it is not marked. The product
should have a declaration about the ingredients.

What decision?

First of all, wine makers have been blending wines since there was such a
thing as wine makers. It's quite common, and I doubt American wine
producers are the only ones doing it.

Secondly, who cares if the wine is blended? What you care about is how the
wine tastes. It's not like there's some health hazard to blended wines or
anything. The label isn't required to tell you whether you'll like the wine
or not, and blending is irrelevant to the question of whether you'll like
the taste.

Pete

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:41:53 +0100, Martin Hotze
wrote:

:On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:46:53 GMT, Jay Honeck wrote:
:
:We seldom have wine in the house, but for parties those fridge-sized boxes
:are a marvelous invention.
:
:*brrrrr*
:
:we here in the EU now have to allow US wine to be imported ... some of the
:US producers mix wine (and don't have to declare it on the label) ... how
:disgusting.

The French have been doing it forever, they just don't admit it in
public. Ginestet, GVG, Cordier, CVBG, Dulong and Mestrezat &
Domaines - they all paid big fines a few years ago.

*brrrrr*

we here in the EU now have to allow US wine to be imported ... some
of the US producers mix wine (and don't have to declare it on the
label) ... how disgusting.

Would you like a little cheese with that whine? ;^)

Not being a wine aficionado, I've never understood the snobbery regarding
"wine in a box".

Primarily it has to do with the wine that is available in a box. Glass
also lasts longer; some fine wines are laid down for ten years or more.

There's a controversy about using cork or screwcaps now too; it looks
like screwcaps will win this one as cork is getting scarce and has its
problems.

Jose
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Jose wrote:

Not being a wine aficionado, I've never understood the snobbery
regarding "wine in a box".


Primarily it has to do with the wine that is available in a box. Glass
also lasts longer; some fine wines are laid down for ten years or more.

There's a controversy about using cork or screwcaps now too; it looks
like screwcaps will win this one as cork is getting scarce and has its
problems.

They've done taste tests on TV with these wine snobs. For a given wine
it is not possible to tell what kind of container it has been stored in
by its taste.