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. So I've carried boxed wine with me, quite literally, into my thirties. 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. 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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