• @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    174 days ago

    Franzia really stepped up it’s game.

    Also, boxed wine has an undeserved bad rap. It’s not, like, an amazing wine…but it’s inexpensive, it ships well, and it stays good in the box for a while, so I’m not tempted to finish the bottle.

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      4 days ago

      Similarly to how wine bottles with metal caps used to be frowned upon, because “all quality wines are bottled with corks”. I’ve had both awful and great wines from both corked and capped bottles.

    • See a box with a built in tap is dangerous for me, it lasts half as long as it would in a bottle. Plus I swear it makes for the WORST hangovers.

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        3 days ago

        True, but for $~20 I can buy like, a six-pack of premium domestic beer, a 4-pack of craft beer, or 3-5 litres of wine. Box wine is the clear value winner, and tastes significantly better than cheap beer.

        Idk about the hangover tho. I don’t really get hangovers. I remember before my wedding…my bachelor party was Foxwoods casino, and meanwhile my wife went with her sister and mom to a Jimmy Buffet tribute concert. They all felt much worse than I did in the morning.