So, what is it about this flood that makes wine so good? (Articles condensed from Wine Folly - Gigantic Floods Made Washington Wine Country) The silt, referred to as ‘Warden silt loam’, is what collected in the many river valleys of Washington. If you can imagine, they dropped everything from large boulders and trees to microscopic silt. During the cataclysmic floods occurring at the end of the last ice age, the torrents rushed down the Clark Fork and the Columbia River to collect in eddies and valleys and drop sediment. The land in eastern Washington closest to the ancient Lake Missoula is sparse and this area is called the ‘Scablands’. Fortunately, this happened 20,000 years ago, so there weren’t many Washington residents - save for a few wooly mammoths.
The floods that carved out the Columbia Valley were over 10 times taller (400 ft tall) and raged across the land at 60 mph. Washington wines are famous for bold fruit, zesty acidity and balanced tannins, but why? It was the ancient Ice Age Floods that created a region that’s good at growing grapes. Washington Wines and the Ice Age Floods Huge Ice-Rafted Erratic in Badger Coulee Vineyard
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She has a cellar full of fancy bottles and a fridge full of boxed wines she drinks every day.World Class Wines From Washington State Thanks to Ice Age Floods Cristaldi was also named a "Wine Prophet" by Time Out New York for his witty and often avant-garde approach to wine education.īetsy Andrews has been writing about wine and spirits for two decades. Jonathan Cristaldi has written about wine and spirits for over a decade. But Tetra Paks are tough as nails, so you can put them to creative reuse as containers for holding desk or art supplies, bird feeders, planters for seedlings, and more. A blend of paper, aluminum, and polyethylene, this packaging is much more difficult to process on the back end, so not all municipalities accept it for recycling.
The carboard that bag-in-box brands come in is pretty much recyclable everywhere. That gives you just about 7 glasses of wine. A smaller, totable box, like the one the Bandit Pinot Grigio comes in, is a 1-liter size. So, you get 20 glasses of wine from that size box. Big, 3-liter boxes are equivalent to four 750ml bottles of wine, and a bottle of wine yields five 5-ounce glasses. The servings per bag depends upon the size of the box. Air-tight and far more lightweight than glass, the heavy, plastic bag inside the box keeps wine fresher than in a bottle. The bag-in-box technology goes back to the 1960s, when Australia’s Penfold’s invented the bladder with a tap on the end. Nowadays, with so many mid-tier and premium brands on the market, boxed wine is no different than bottled wine. Fun labels make boxed wines giftable.īoxes used to be reserved for cheap, low-quality wine. Also, a cardboard carton offers lots of surface for inventive design. With a Tetra Pak, you want the cap to screw on securely, so you don’t spill any wine while you’re toting it along on an adventure. You want the spigot to be easy to find, easy to pull through its opening in the cardboard box, and easy to turn on and off, with no leakage. Quality is improving, she notes, “as more producers use this packaging for mid-tier wines.” But she throws in this caveat: “If you are a die hard wine snob, box wines might not be for you as yet.”Ĭonstruction matters.
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“The wine should be free of faults,” says Brown. Many of the options are easy-drinking, everyday wines, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t find them enjoyable. Bottom line: Expect to pay less for boxed wine. A 3-liter box is not much more than double the price of a 750ml bottle, making it a great deal. But the value also a product of the cheaper shipping costs, and more and more, wine that’s available in bottles also comes in a box, at a relative savings. Sometimes it comes down to a less-than-premium wine in the box. “Currently they are less expensive and can be a bargain,” says Brown. While Pour Haus Cabernet ( view at Drizly) brings elegance to the box with its sippable red perfect for the cheese course during a fine dinner, Bridge Lane Red Blend ( view at Total Wine) is meant for more-casual times: cookouts and backyard grilling.īoxed wine has traditionally been seen as a cheap-and-cheerful value product.
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