Wine with your 100LL?

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.

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.

For screwcaps I can easily believe this. For wine in a box, I'd say
"more research is called for" (like how long does the box last in a damp
cellar after ten years or thirty). It may well work for fine wines too,
but the wine industry moves slowly. (as it should - discovering a
problem with a container after ten years does wonders for the ten year
old wine maturing in those containers.)

I'd like to see champaigne in a box.

Jose
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"Jose" wrote

I'd like to see champaigne in a box.

I would too, but only from a good distance. ;-)
--
Jim (Can you say boom?) in NC

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.

And the "cork" is no longer actually cork, it is some synthetic material.

"john smith" wrote:

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.

And the "cork" is no longer actually cork, it is some synthetic
material.

Only sometimes. Every bottle of wine I have right now has a real cork.

--
Dan

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available to everyone."
- some guy at MIT

Jose wrote:

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.

Well, screwcaps aren't really players yet. What is becoming more and more
popular is synthetic corks. They seem to work very well.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

Well, screwcaps aren't really players yet. What is becoming more and more
popular is synthetic corks. They seem to work very well.

I've heard one fairly well-known CA winery owner, and the eastern rep
of another, say, in almost the same words, "There is no California
winery owner who would not love to switch to screwcaps, but no one has
the guts to be the first.

Then, two or three years ago, I read that a winery owned in part by
the Gettys offered for sale a Chardonnay (IIRC) for $130 a bottle; but
for an additional five dollars you could get it with a screwcap!

How's that for reverse snobbery?

vince norris