Good boxed wines?

Here are a few links to top rated boxed wines:

http://www.realsimple.com/magazine-more/inside-website/daily-finds/best-boxed-wines-00000000019815/index.html

http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/drinking/wine/top5_boxwines

I personally prefer my wine from a bottle, though. Do most of your guests drink boxed wine or beer?

I have a cigar and wine bar and "good" and "boxed" are two words that don't go together. I would do some research. There are plenty of cheaper wines that will be better. Try Woodbridge in the liter bottles. Plus it's hard to keep boxed wine cold not to mention the stigma on it. Try going to trader Joes and picking up their lower end wines. I have heard good things about them.

Black Box and Bota Box are both great. We drink them at our home all the time.

I'm a huge fan of the Bota Box. We're sort of wine snobs and we think it's really good.

You will have a larger selection of great bottled wine at decent prices than the boxed ones.

I heard a show on NPR about wine and blind tastings with some of the most advanced palates of wine tasters in the world. Most people can't taste the different between something decent and something fabulous. I like Bota Box too, and Black Box wines. Get some decanters, pour those babies in there and no one will know the dif.

I like Washington hills, they do box and bottle. It's what I make my sangria with too.

Thanks for the input...decanters are tempting....serving from the box seems so easy...

That would be really pretty on the bar; if you start buying antiquey style bottles now, you'll have plenty!

This is a trend that I've seen at a lot of the winebars that do weddings; they have trays of mixed up bottles full of water on the bar so people can help themselves I think it's cute!

And you've given me a topic for my Money Monday, on www.500greatweddingideas.com! Thanks!

C

We buy nothing but Bota Box. Love it!!

My FMIL who is a serious wine fan, says no. That there's a reason it comes in a bag in a box, that it's not good wine.

HOWEVER, I doubt most of your guests will be serious wine people like she is.

Ha ha! Katie Holmes, quoted in the NY Times today; "I've had box wine. It's good. And it's a lot easier to open".

I am in the wine business, have been for 16 years, so I have seen brands, closures (corks zorks and screwcaps) and bag in a box wines come and go. Yes, there are good boxed wines out there, for receptions. I echo Black Box.

There are many more boxed wines around the world, than we see here, as they do not travel well.

I do not know if you live somewhere where there are wineries, but there are wineries that produce large format boxed wines for restaurants. They may be willing to sell you one for your reception.

On a side note, when I was on the retail side, I used to have customers special order Copper Ridge wines. They had them at a restaurant and loved them. When I told them it was actually Turning Leaf in a restaurant label, I always heard "I would NEVER drink Turning Leaf". In my my head, my come back was always, "Well, you did last night and paid $30 for the opportunity." LOL!!!

You may also try to contact a wine distributor (wholesaler) in your state. They may have some large format boxed wines that are not known to the public (again, things wineries produce for restaurants.)

I used to buy 18 LT boxes for my home, before I got in the wine business, from a wholesaler.

As far as what to serve. For a mixed crowd, for a white wine, I would go with either an un-oaked Chardonnay or a Pinot Gris (Grigio). For red, I would do Merlot or Cabernet.

This is going to sound snobby but like it was said above the words "good" and "boxed" do not go together. I'm a wino though. I would never ever drink or serve boxed wine. My weddings a at a winery and we are serving their award winning wines.

Not to sound snarky, but doing it anyway. "Award winning" does not always mean good. Heck, there are low quality, bottom shelf wines, that have won awards. There are also very expensive, fantastic wines without awards.

Hence this...Turning Leaf has won awards.

http://www.turningleaf.com/Awards.asp

@Alisha, I have not heard of the winery you are getting married at. Guess I need to check it out, since I am in the Pacific NW.

Franzia is actually pretty tasty. I did a wedding once, where the couple used boxed wine to cut the cost, but ended up making sangrias with it. They served it in some really nice drink dispensers, and all of the the guest thought it was something really fancy.

I love the feedback i get here. Thanks. i live kinda in the toolies and there are no real wineries around. OK and its zero right now, so not many grapes want to winter here...LOL... The wine isn't the centerpiece..know what I'm learning planning this wedding?...we aren't even the centerpiece...its the guests that love us two old fogies enough they are willing to come all the way to North Dakota just to be present for us...that's the centerpiece...so they deserve a class act.... will check out my options at the local stores...I laugh at Turning Leaf b/c I drink it and like it just fine, although I never knew I shouldn't.......I appreciate the wisdom of a "non-oaked chardoney"...that must be lighter and fruiter and more fitting to the average palate...thanks all...your wisdom is much appreciated.

Honestly, I would take that cheap wine and make a delicious sangria.

I know a lot of people have talked about sangrias in this thread already, but there's a reason for that. It's alcoholic, it's easy to make, it's inexpensive to make, and it's super fun and tasty. Take that boxed wine, forget any questions as to quality and whether guests will like it, add the fruit and whatever other liquors you want (depends on how you like sangria, I like mine with a splash of brandy and some other ingredients), chill and serve.

Ok. working on my education, here. havent thought about sangria for about 30 years. My readings tell me to have twice as much white wine as red...sangria is red wine based, so...??? Im off to look it up, but exactly what goes in a sangria...is it wintery....I did think about a mulled wine.... I so don't like sweet wines myself, that I'm trying to stay away from all sweet "doctored up" wines....but you do have me thinking...