Saturday, August 8, 2009

Bottle Wine Vs. Box Wine


As far as wine is concerned what matters is what you like to drink. I am not an expert on wine by any stretch of the imagination, but there's no point having a glass of premier wine that doesn't appeal to your taste. Most box wines tend to be cheaper than bottle wines, generally wine by the bulk or sold 2 to 6 liters at a time is cheap but considering the economy right now, cheap wine is has grown in popularity. Just because it's cheap doesn't mean it's low quality. And if you like drinking a particular wine, who cares if it's cheap or not?
Low end box wines have an historic reputation of being the wine of choice among college students and "winos" due to it's quick inebriation. Though in my experience I've found that bottle wines and box wines are no different in this case. If you are accustomed to drinking wine in general, you already have some level of tolerance. The only difference that you'll readily notice is taste. There are white wines such as White Zinfandel and red whites such as Shiraz. Red wines are supposedly better for you but if you're drinking wine to improve your heart health than you are probably wasting both your time and money. There are certainly better things for your heart you could be drinking besides alcoholic beverages. I drink wine to relax.
There are various box wine brands out there to choose from, Franzia, Inglenook and Almaden, just to name a few. Almaden I've found is generally very potent wine and I've been drinking wine for the last 4 years and Almaden is pretty strong. Anyway, whatever you drink enjoy it. There's plenty of good wine out there that you don't have to pay a small fortune for.

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