Wine with your 100LL?

Is there something wrong with keeping wine in your hangar???


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.

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

Is it not possible to have a fine wine that happens to be packaged in a
modern, convenient container? Does the plastic lining make it taste funny
(like the original plastic containers did with milk)?

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

--
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 15:41:53 +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.

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.

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.