Christina of blog Thirty a Week is looking for good boxed wine suggestions. She writes:
Going canoe camping Memorial Day weekend and our group is looking for some good boxed wine to take with us (no drinking while canoe-ing!!) since we have to pack light. Suggestions?
Christina, Mary did a post on bag-in-the-box wine a little while ago and you may find some good ideas in the comments:
• Bag-in-Box Wine: What's Your View?
Other than that, we aren't much help on this. Box wine has actually been gaining in popularity due to its more environmentally friendly packaging, ease of transportation, and other factors. But we just haven't investigated it much yet. Readers, what's the best box wine you know, and do you have any recommendations in that line for Christina?
Keep an eye out for any canoeing reports on Christina's blog, Thirty a Week, too.
Related: Good Question: Best Meals to Cook On Camping Trips?
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The wine in a you find at Target these days is surprisingly decent.
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Target actually has a nice selection of box/cube wine.
http://sites.target.com/site/en/supertarget/page.jsp?title=brands&brand=wineCube
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I've had the target stuff, and it's decent (like an average $9 bottle, but half the price!)
I also like the Bota brand.
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The Black Box wines are pretty reliably drinkable.
There's also a powdered red wine in Europe that is... horrible, which is a shame.
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To me, the Black Box Sonoma Reserve Merlot is the best of the boxed wines. Unfortunately, whereas it once cost under $20, it now costs near $30, which just isn't really that great of a price point, imo.
I've been drinking a lot of Bota Cab. lately because it's the right mix between decent quality and an excellent price.
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The cab made by Three Thieves is called Bandit - comes in a purple Tetrapak. I found it for about 6 bucks in the Bay Area - really, really surprised at the high quality. Very enjoyable stuff.
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Thanks everyone! I know the Brooklyn Target DOES NOT sell wine, so that's that. As for Black Box, I've heard good things, but has the price point really gone up to $30? I would rather get DTour at that price.
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Only the Sonoma Reserve Merlot (it has a sort of gold lettering on it) has gone up that much. The others are still from $18-22, depending on where you buy.
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Bota Boxed wines at http://www.botabox.com/ come in lots of great varieties and if you take a look at their graphics, you'll see why they're they best bet for camping.
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You can also take a bottle of your favorite wine and pour into a Sigg metal bottle for transport. Then once you drink the wine, you have another water bottle to use (or keep empty and light)!
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I just read an article about this issue - apparently a company in Seattle started making plastic bags that you can transfer wine from a bottle to transport it for hiking and camping. Article: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090523/LIVING/705239905
Bag info: http://cascadedesigns.com/platypus/wine-preservation/category
As someone who hasn't met a boxed wine I like, I'm going to look into this option.
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AboutBoxedWine.com is a recently launched websited. It's dedicated to all things boxed wine. Take some time to check it out! www.aboutboxedwine.com
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