Wine in a Box

More delightful wine-related stuff from The NY Times today, this time coming in the form of an Op-Ed piece by Tyler Coleman on the subject of boxed wine. Often shunned in America thanks to horrible varieties like Franzia, wine in a box is actually not considered a quintessential mark of trashiness in prime-time wine country like France and Italy. Granted, the really fine stuff should come in a bottle . . . but as the article points out, it actually makes a lot of sense for most vineyards to transition to wine in a box. It reduces a carbon footprint, is convenient for not having to drink an entire bottle in one sitting, and is cheaper than using traditional glass bottles. For what it's worth, one of the best rose's I've ever had was a cave wine sold in a box in the South of France.