Wine Spectator<\/em><\/a> reviewed 39 box wines.\u00a0 Amazingly, all but two scored in the 80-88 range, rated as either “good” or “very good.”\u00a0 One shocker was a Carlo Rossi cabernet, 5 liters and going for around $15 at the time, that scored 84 points.<\/p>\nCarlo Rossi, king of the jug wines, pulling a very respectable 84?\u00a0 For 5 liters?\u00a0 That’s value, maybe even the best value you’ll find anywhere in the liquor section.<\/p>\n
Happy birthday, box wine.\u00a0 You’re looking great these days.\u00a0 Many happy returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wine-in-a-box\u00a0turns 50 years old in 2015.\u00a0 This is cause for great rejoicing and celebration. Box wine has come a long way since it debuted in Australia in 1965.\u00a0 Back then, according to\u00a0George M. Taber’s excellent book A Toast to Bargain Wines,\u00a0the plastic bladders inside the box (or “cask”) were the same as those used to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[152,327,324,329,328,330,326,325,323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}