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Jug wines may soon go the way of the carrier pigeon if this trend detailed by the East Bay Business Times takes hold.
No more jugs of Almaden and Inglenook? Horrors! Who among us did not cut their wine-tasting teeth on ol’ reliable Inglenook Navalle Chablis?
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By chiefwino
June 2, 2008 6:32 AM | Link to this
Just got back from southern Rhone valley and virtualy every winery, tasting room, and wine shop had a broad selection of appellation-specific box wines including Luberon, Vauclus, Cotes-du-Rhone, and real Chablis. The most surprising was the availability of Muscat Beaume-de-Venise, a slightly fortified dessert wine, served at two very high end restaurants in carafe from a box.