It just so happened that I was reading an article last night about the new method of selling wine in boxes, and how it's becoming a lot more prevalent not just with low-end swill vineyards, but more popular and upscale ones as well. I was at a wine store this morning and happened to see one of the boxes mentioned in the article as a top buy in boxed wine. The advantages of boxed wine are many, including longer shelf life after opening, more convenient storage, and up to a 90% savings on packaging costs for the vineyards, passing on the savings to me. This box contains the equivalent of 4 bottles of wine, takes up not much more space, and cost only $20. The box is recyclable and the plastic bladder containing the wine comes from recycled plastic. I'm all for doing what I can, especially if it means less money out of my pocket for a glass of wine.
I haven't tasted it yet, but my palate is pretty forgiving.
Update - for the equivalent of $5 per bottle, the wine is quite good.
