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[ConorMacNessa]

If I were not boycotting French wines, I'd be appalled.

[Semper Paratus]

How do you cork a carton?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Who keep Cab in the fridge ?

[Archytekt]

buy Australian!

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Boisset is taking its Tetra Pak wines upmarket as a result of its Canadian success.

The Burgundy-based producer, which makes wine in the south of France as well as Rhone, and California, sells four wines – called French Rabbit – in state-of-the-art Tetra Prisma packaging in Canada, and launches the same range in the UK in January.

Considering the skunkiness of many Candian beers, this is not surprising.

[dennisw]

Red wine is what I like best/ and Cabernet Sauvignon is my favorite red. Marcus James Cab http://www.google.com/search?q=%22marcus+james%22+wine&sa=N&revid=1618165262&qpos=0&oi=revisions_inline from Argentina is OK for me. Drop dead treacherous Froggies!

[trisham]

one of France's top producers is to replace traditional glass bottles with cardboard and plastic cartons normally associated with milk and fruit juice.

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Glass is preferable because it does not impart any taste to the wine. This "top producer" is clearly targeting those who have no taste buds.

[SF Republican]

Carton wine is okay; my wife picked some up for a party and it was good, at basically $2 per bottle it was great. Australian wine is so so; my order for reds would be Calif Napa, France and Chile

[sergeantdave]

Throw in some poplar wood chips, a few dead pine borers, and a handful of deer and rabbit turds to give it authenticity.

[grobdriver]

French wines in a box?
Eh. They're all "box wines" anyway, so why not?

[caver]

"We want to take a serious approach to global warming. We decided to eliminate the cork, paper and glass, and look at a new format."

I would say that this has nothing to do with global warming. The only reason they are doing this is because paper and plastic are cheaper than glass and corks. More environmental hypocrisy.

[garyhope]

"Wine is all about romance and occasion. To some extent presentation is as important as the quality of the liquid that is in the bottle. Can you imagine if you have a guest coming to dinner and you serve them wine in a plastic carton?"

Gee, and I thought wine was about the taste and quality.

Silly, you don't serve it in a "plastic carton", you get out your good crystal decanter, decant the wine in the kitchen and bring it out to your guests with your good Riedel varietal glasses, they'll be impressed.

[evets]

I enjoy an occasional carton of cabernet sauvignon.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Iraq is a UN mess that the French alone with their declared Veto intention shoved into the arms of The US and have been snickering about it every time one of our Brave Soldiers gets killed in Iraq.

DEEP SHAME on any jerk buying and drinking French wine!

I would drink toilet water before I drink french wine just so I could brag to them about how much better it was!

[GVnana]

by 2008 the UK will have matured into Europe's largest wine market, overtaking France, Germany and Italy

That's all I need to know about the EU.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

Must resist base impulses, must resist "fish in a barrel", must resist..., new year's resolutions, must not pick on frogs, ...m...u..s..t.. r...e..s..i..s..t...