Boxed wine is slowly winning some grudging respect; it's been doing that for decades. Now, there's a bit of science to help the cause.
A Canadian study found that boxed wine – actually, wine in a plastic bladder with a spigot, inside a box – can be better tasting because it has fewer problems with unpleasant odours.
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The oft-cited pros for boxed wine:
- less expensive than comparable bottled wine
- better wines are being boxed now
- you can, as I have, buy a three-litre box, put it in the fridge, and enjoy it over the course of a month or two; in theory, the last drops of the wine are just as good as the first because of the self-sealing spigot and the magic of the packaging
- better for the environment, because it's easier to transport - packaging is lighter, more wine can be crammed into a truck
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The oft-cited cons:
- it's yucky
- it's laughed at
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On the one occasion that I dared to ask about boxed wine in a Victoria wine shop, the clerk winced (politely) and said that while they didn't have anything against boxed wine, they didn't stock any. Then she rushed away in search of another customer.
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