Boxed Wines: Good or Grim?

On CTV’s new national breakfast show, Your Morning, host Lindsey Deluce and I chatted about boxed wines.

These are otherwise known as bag-in-a-box, and in the past have had a nasty reputation with consumers; the Rodney Dangerfield of wine.

However, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by what's in the box these days.

That may be the reason that boxed wines are one of the fastest-growing categories in the wine industry ...

Hilarious Wine Videos Expose the Folly of Blind Tasting

My favourite scene in the online wine video series Plonk is when the host gets Rocky-style training on how to taste wine blindly with the bottle's label concealed.

Next is the big showdown taste-off with his wine-knowledgeable friend, deftly parodying the notion of blind tasting as a proving ground for wine expertise.

Blind tasting to identify a wine, especially as a public parlour game, is what puts the snobbery back into the bottle ...

Upgrade to the Label Scanner Wine App   

We've made some major upgrades to the label scanner in the new wine app >

You can watch the video here.

(Tips to turn up the volume here.)