I wish they’d make more nicer wines available in boxes. And more smaller boxes available. I don’t need a 3 or 5 liter box most of the time. I get bored of the same wine every day before my hubby and I can finish a big box. But a 1 or 2 liter box would be awesome.

Also, I think it would be great if someone made a wine in a pretty enough box that it could be classy enough looking to serve at nicer events like weddings. The event is more exciting than the wine, so box quality would be fine, and the spigot system would make it really easy for everyone to serve themselves. Shame that all the boxes are so ugly looking that you couldn’t put them on a nicely decorated table without feeling classless.

Also, you can have a lot of fun inflating the bladder and duct tapping it to a lush’s feet and watch him or her bounce around helplessly until crashing into the glass coffee table. Yes my friends, boxed wine is here to stay.

…and for those concerned with “green” this ones easy. Regardless of how recycled, the box is more efficient- more wine per truck and lighter and unbreakable(than glass). That means less trucks (diesel) delivering wine.

As far as landfills understand soon we will be sending our trash to another planet and that problem will be solved…

@owl – the cork issue is really interesting, that’s a good point. This is one of those areas where forest management is actually working and preserving an ecosystem.

Check out this boxed wine!

Box wine is good stuff for camping, definitely. But I’m not sure that my wine rack is going to be converted for box wine storage anytime soon.

The greener solution for me would be to buy it by the barrel and install a spigot right next to the water dispenser on the fridge. That would make my life a lot easier! And more fun!

“Check under the foil wrapper before you break open your next bottle of wine. No longer deemed low-class, synthetic and screw-top stoppers are replacing real cork—and threatening an entire ecosystem.”

I wonder how boxed wine (being cork-less) affects these trees?

(Since Mental Floss doesn’t allow links in the comments, you on my name to get the article.)

However, a box of wine is great for drinking just a glass of wine with dinner. Highly satisfying, and I don’t have to worry about it going bad before I can finish the bottle.

*I no longer have to drag home two heavy glass bottles each week; one box is all, and because it’s lighter and has a handle, it’s easy to carry. Fits perfectly in my bicycle basket, and without clanking around!

*The cardboard exterior and plastic “bladder” are both recyclable, and don’t take up as much room in the blue bin when they’re broken down.

*I don’t have to worry about corkscrews or bottle stoppers. (Sometimes I’d drink enough wine that I’d completely forget to seal the bottle afterwards, which made for a skanky flavour and the occasional floating fruit fly. No more!)

*Awesome for camping! I don’t know about the States, but up here in Canada, some decent wines are sold in tetra paks (i.e., French Rabbit cab sav) Easy to squeeze in a backpack on the way there, no gadgets required to open it, and once empty, it’s feather-light and crushable for packing back out of the wilderness.

* Cheaper! Costs AT LEAST a dollar less to buy the box than the equivalent volume in bottles.

I think that if you don’t like the wine in the bottle, you won’t like the wine in the box, but if you see your favourite wine in this alternate format, give it a shot!