Boxed wines

[Innkeeper]

Roberto is right on. The folks in Oz are cautiously marketing good wine in boxes. It is the best packaging for ready to consume wine. It will probably be a long time before the Austalian stuff gets here because of the justified bad rap of American boxed wine.

One thing that caused to final demise (in quality) of American boxed wine was the loophole that the big guys convinced the BATF to approve a few years ago. It was the labeling "Natural Flavorings Added." This allowed producers to have as little as 10% wine in the box, with the other 90% being "Natural Flavoring." At one point you could not buy a box anywhere without this labeling. A few producers are backing away from this now.

We are still leagues away from what the Australians are doing.