Kermit Lynch leapfrogs screw-caps for Box Wine...

WINE TALK
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LOVE this idea. If a guy with the credentials (and the goods!) like Kermit can make this work, maybe we can bring the QPR of a lot of daily drinkers way up?

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I’m all for it…I love the box technology, but lament the wines that I can find packaged like that…but if I could find something I like from S. France or Spain (or wherever, really. I just figure it would be from there) and have 5L on the ready, I’d be all over it…there are so many times when I want one or two glasses (or one more [shock.gif]), but instead of pulling a cork, I usually pass it up

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That would be awesome - a nice Rhone in a 5L box at the ready!

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…Kermit was offered the chance to buy a Vermentino similar to the “E Prove Blanc” but in a five-liter box. Five liters is equivalent to 6 and 2/3rds bottles of wine. We don’t have a price for the five-liter box at this time, but it would certainly be cheaper than a bottle of E Prove. Kermit thinks the wine is a nice tasty dry white and will be a great value.

Please consider the possibilities. You could keep the box in your fridge for a month or so, drinking through it one glass at a time…

Is the idea that there would be some sort of plastic bag internal to the box which would keep the wine from oxidizing?

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Last March when I was in the southern Rhone, almost every guy we saw makes bag in a box wine. Roger Sabon makes one that was actually pretty good, and Pesquie makes one that is basically Paradou (their second label) in the bag in a box.

As much as I love the Maestracci E Prove wines, especially the white, I don’t think Corsican Vermentino is going to light the bag in a box world on fire.

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Yes, that’s the way they work.

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Kysela Pere et Fils experimented with some of their wines in 3L, 5L and 10L formats two years ago. I loved them but but they ended up having to close out a fair portion of them and haven’t brought them back yet. Hope this marks a turn around in public perception and they give it another whirl.

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And does the plastic bag actually do a pretty good job of keeping the wine from oxidizing?

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In a word…yes. I’d say for a nice every day sipper that 2 weeks minimum works just fine.

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This would be FANTASTIC! [berserker.gif] Would be the equivalent of having your own by the glass machine at home.

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I think 5L is a bit too large, but I would love to have a 2L size available.

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I have no personal experience with wine-in-a-box, but I’ve always understood 2 months was no problem.

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I think that Brian Loring was/is, at least, toying with the idea of boxed wines. There was a thread elsewhere on the web about this and he chimed in to this effect.

Mark

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when I was ITB, we packaged wines in a box…from my experience, up to six months or more and the wine was fine…the technology is very strong, but the public perception is that anything packaged as bag-in-a-box is crap…like screwcaps, it’s all about changing public perception…and to do this, you need decent to good wines packaged this way

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incredibly off topic,

are those your dogs Mark? awesome dogs!

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If that’s the case, I should think that an industry leader such as Kermit Lynch could have a tremendous impact on public perception. That, in turn, could have an enormous impact on the cost of lower-priced imports. Right now, we pay a lot for packaging and shipment of those wines, and wine-in-a-box would reduce those prices greatly.

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incredibly off topic, are those your dogs Mark? awesome dogs![/quote]

Charlie;

Yes, those are our pups. Snoball, Keesha, and Red.

Mark

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I’d like to have a product to do this from a bottled wine, too. Imagine, instead of having to mess with the various imperfect preservation systems, you could just transfer a wine into the thing and have it on tap, as fresh as when you opened the bottle!

Something like that, a high-end product, would help the perception of the technology a great deal.

Something real high-end might pump the wine out of the bottle, while displacing it with inert gas, and avoiding sucking up sediment. Then you could open something old and have it on demand, without degredation.

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Dom. Edmund Burle produces a Vin du Pays in a 5-liter box. I’ve successfully kept it at room temperature for over 4 months and it was fresh as a daisy - so to speak. Sells for $35, give or take.

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It’s mylar if memory serves, and yes. See my post just above this one.