May 30, 2024
Here’s a tip: set aside all your cardboard-based prejudices and head to the boxed-wine aisle of your local bottle or grocery store. What was once home to shelves of homogenous, lackluster plonk is now a globetrotting category, full of thoughtfully made options that rival their bottled counterparts from southwestern France, Sicily, California, and beyond.
It’s economical—consider that each box contains the equivalent of four regular bottles—plus, choosing boxes over bottles helps the planet. “Wine is an agricultural product that has been greatly impacted by the effects of climate change,” says Melissa Monti-Saunders, founder of Communal Brands, a wine importer/distributor that carries several boxed wines. “If people want to do their part to reduce that impact, buying packaging alternatives to single-use glass is a meaningful way to accomplish this.”
So make room for boxed wine at your table — and after dinner’s over, know that, because of the collapsing, oxygen-free bag inside that box, it will stay drinkable for weeks to come.
Best Boxed White Wines
Nomadica White ($55)
Earlier this year, Nomadica founder Kristin Olszewski made the leap from canned to boxed wine. This 100% California Chardonnay is balanced and crisp with pleasant notes of banana, green apple, and vanilla. The box is wrapped in custom art by Maureen Meyer, making it radically more chic than most competitors.
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