Wine with your 100LL?

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.

#m
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1. The ability to consume it in volume.
2. Easy to pour after you've consumed it in volume
3. No glass to break after you've consumed it in volume
4. Nobody gets stabbed with the cork screw after you've...
5. After you've CIIV, you don't care if it came in a box.
Jim

"Peter R." wrote in message
...
Tom Conner wrote:

I think the issue was that the wine was in a box. I haven't tried any
yet,
but there have been at least two articles in the papers over the year
with a
positive wine in the box slant.

Really? Do you recall the positive points raised in the article?

--
Peter

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 prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
W. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene I

"Peter R." wrote in message
...
Tom Conner wrote:

I think the issue was that the wine was in a box. I haven't tried any
yet,
but there have been at least two articles in the papers over the year
with a
positive wine in the box slant.

Really? Do you recall the positive points raised in the article?

--
Peter

Something about low wing drivers liked the box because it could be set on
the wing and made for easy dispensing. :-)

1. The ability to consume it in volume.

Actually, the ability to consume it =not= in volume. Since air makes
wine go bad, if you can prevent air from getting in, it's always fresh,
even if you only have half a glass today and half a glass three months
from today.

Jose
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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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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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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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