Can we take a minute to talk seriously about boxed wine?
I have no particular love for Clif Wine - someone brought it to my birthday party, though, and I love free things!
I’m not exactly a wine snob. I live in the Bay Area in California, so I’m surrounded by a lot of very good wine. I can appreciate it, but I’m going to be honest – most of the time I don’t think I can tell the difference between a $15 bottle of wine and a $50 bottle of wine. As a result, the wine I drink is usually around $9 and I can buy it at the Walgreen’s down the street. Don’t judge.
Anyways, I don’t believe my wine pedigree is good enough to really judge wine, but there has been a lot of talk recently about the growing trend of boxed wine. I can’t say either way whether or not there are any good, drinkable boxed wines out there (though I lean towards thinking there are) but I have found a great reason to buy boxed wine on the regular: for cooking!
Boxed wine is sealed completely differently than bottles of wine, and as a result an open box of wine can last up to a month in your refrigerator! This is fantastic for me, as so many great recipes call for just a cup or less of white wine at a time (my own lentil soup recipe is a wonderful example of this). I have never had trouble finishing a bottle of red wine, but white wine just isn’t my thing. If I only used a cup of it…well, the rest of the bottle used to go to waste. Now, I can always keep it on hand without worrying about it becoming oxidized!
Thank you, boxed wine!
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