On 26 Mar 2009 19:19:00 GMT, Wim van Bemmel >
wrote:

>Quality wine comes in bottles, and once open they need to be emptied the
>same day. The next day you may cook with it, at most.
>The daily drink comes in a "bag in box" as we call it in France, where I
>live. They still look strange at me if I ask a "sac en boite". That keeps
>for some weeks, since no air comes in contact with the wine. There are
>qualities in bags, though. The best are those that look silvery.

In the US, there are many bottled and corked wines that taste far
worse than the boxed stuff. Advertising sold consumers on the concept
of "if it is in a bottle and has a cork, it's good". Now they have to
undo it because some of the best wines come with a screw cap now.
Screw caps were a marker of bad wine before the wine-in-a-box concept
was invented. It's only a matter of time until some high priced
winery decides wine in a box is the way to go and it will start at the
restaurant "by the glass" level where they can hide the package and
still sell the wine.


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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West