On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:19:40 -0700, sf wrote:

> 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.

The last thing is what happens now. The house wine, sold by pichet, comes
from a box.
As I live in Côtes du Rhône area, house wines use to be good. With good
wines all around, rubbish does not sell.

--
Groet, salut, Wim.