CHEAP DRY RED WINE FULL

I can’t count the times my friends and I shared an expensive bottle of garbage wine, pretending to care about it, when Franzia would have done the job better. It also has a buttery tang, adding an interesting layer of flavor that elevates it beyond a run-of-the-mill boxed red. This bolder variation has a fullness without going too far into sweet territory. This is where I get on my pedestal, which is made out of cardboard, to say that Franzia is a legitimate wine contender. With a box, you're wading into I Love Lucy's falling-out-of-the-grape-bucket territory. I also woke up with a massive hangover, because the danger of boxed wine is that you're not finishing off a bottle. But man does it also manage to hit me in that nostalgic college way. It’s a dark red blend, and it’s good as hell. Who says you can’t go home? No, this isn’t my first child, Chillable Red. With that, this is my assessment of the best boxed wines out there right now. And there's a rosé that snuck in below, for good measure. To get you started, House Wine's Chardonnay and the Naked Grape's Pinot Grigio are excellent bets. For those who may be looking for a white, fear not: Many of these brands also have especially good whites. To do so, I tested far too much boxed wine, and now I find myself using words like 'tannins' and 'body' and 'nice ass cardboard.'īecause I am who I am, this list predominantly focuses on reds. But I genuinely wanted to see what the field beyond Franzia looked like these days. The snobs may turn their nose up at the sight of a white box showing a heavy pour sloshing in a glass. The notion of boxed wine may conjure up a certain cultural aesthetic, something that fancier folk might call tacky. Fortunately enough, the boxed wine game has evolved, too. Our taste evolves beyond the indistinct red blend nestled in the fridge. The difference, however, is that at a certain point, most of us start drinking wine out of actual wine glasses. The medium-bodied wine is smooth and has an aroma of smokiness and spice coupled with blueberries and blackberries. The grape variety is 70 Shiraz and 30 Cabernet Sauvignon and has a deep purple color. So I've carried boxed wine with me, quite literally, into my thirties. Sula has always been popular as one of the best budget wine producers, and this one at INR 895 for 750ml is truly a bang for the buck. Outside of my five-year stint as a chain smoker (in the literal sense, not the music sense), I have struggled to find something more unifying than sharing a box of wine. Because it was in a box, they also knew there was always a glass waiting on them, should they so choose to rap on my door.

CHEAP DRY RED WINE FULL

My peers at that small liberal arts school knew they could stop in and find me, at any given moment, sipping on my second or third Mason jar full of the stuff. In college, I used to keep a box of wine in my fridge-Franzia, Chillable Red.

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