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Price: $19 Maker: Killer Juice Vineyards, Ripon, California Varietal: Merlot Packaging: 3-liter box, twist spigot Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.6 out of 10 Killer Juice Central Coast Merlot 2006 is another in one of my favorite series of box wines, the Killer Juice/Angel Juice lineup. This medium-bodied Merlot has a juicy flavor, mostly blackberries, with [...] We tasted Killer Juice Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 and liked the wine. We were also impressed by Killer Juice’s use of the packaging to enhance the shelf appeal of the wine. In a typical supermarket or wine shop, the customer is presented with a staggering array of wines. Boxed wines in particular may be a challenge, [...] Price: $19 Maker: Killer Juice Vineyards, Ripon, California Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 3-liter box, twist spigot Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.5 out of 10 It’s been two years since we tried Killer Juice Cabernet Sauvignon, and the 2006 vintage of this boxed Cab is a more than worthy successor. The nose was mild, with ripe [...] Price: $10 Maker: Peter Vella Wines, Modesto, California Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 5 liter box, push-button spigot Alcohol: 11% Our Rating: 6 out of 10 Peter Vella Cabernet Sauvignon is an ultra-cheap box wine – we found a 5-liter box on sale for less than ten bucks. We have studiously avoided these offerings from Vella [...] Here are some of the wineries we have covered here: Barefoot Wines Bogle Bohemian Highway Charles Shaw Delicato FreeRange Funky Llama Gala Rouge Georges Duboeuf Graceland Cellars Infinitus Juno Wine Killer Juice Sebeka Trove Two Buck Chuck [...] Price: $18 Maker: Killer Juice Vineyards, Ripon, California Variety: Chardonnay Packaging: 3-liter box Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 9 out of 10 Killer Juice Chardonnay 2005 is, along with Angel Juice Pinot Grigio, one of the two boxed white wines marketed by Underdog Wine Merchants. The two names are surprisingly appropriate, as the two whites are [...] We’ve had a lot of really neat entries for Wine Blogging Wednesday #31, with the theme, “Box Wines & Non-Traditional Packaging.” This was an interesting challenge – some found it easy, while others had difficulty finding a wine that met the criteria but wasn’t the low-end plonk that has traditionally been the mainstay of boxed [...] Who would have guessed that Philadelphia was such a hotbed of wine activity? We just reported on Philadelphia’s wine-friendly BYOB restaurants, and now we find that Craig LaBan of the Philadelphia Inquirer has done an extensive survey of box wines. Of course, LaBan had to lead with the obligatory “sniff the foil” line, but ultimately [...] In a small-scale blind test comparing 3-liter boxed wine to the same wine in conventional corked bottles, the box wine was slightly preferred. In a blind tasting of Underdog Wine Merchants’ Killer Juice Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon in both 3L premium cask and 750ML packaging, experts indicated a preference for the cask over the bottle [...] From a sheer quantity standpoint, there are a lot more bottled wine varieties than box wines, and our reviews tend to reflect that numeric imbalance. So, we thought we’d highlight a few of the box wines we’ve tried recently (focusing on red wines): Hardy’s Shiraz 2004 Price: $20 Maker: Hardys Stamp of Australia by International [...] |
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