Danny B

This better not happen in Canada

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58315152

caretaker

The bars here don't have Molson Pilsner in bottles, only cans, so I switched to Bohemian at the club. At first the rumour was it's because they weren't getting enough bottles back during lockdown, and it was temporary, but now I'm hearing it may be permanent. I buy Pil in cans for home, but when I go out I like it in a bottle.

Jingsamichty

We've started buying wine in boxes. The quality of wine available in boxes has improved drastically over the past few years, and it's better from an environmental point of view - no need to be transporting heavy bottles halfway round the world.

scrubbedexpat091

That's okay the milkshake machines seem to be broken or being cleaned so not working anyhow.

Other than water, I don't recall seeing bottled drinks at McD's, seems they do in the UK though, but eh part of going to McD's is their fountain drinks, they mix coca cola better than just about anyone.

scilly

We first saw wine in boxes in Australia in 1975, bought one to try ................ and it was the same quality as the wine in a bottle. So we began keeping a box of white wine in the fridge.

We got worried about ourselves the night we made scrambled eggs for dinner and had wine with them

It's taken a long while for wine in boxes to reach other countries.

I see some wine makers are having their bottles made of thinner and thinner, but strong, glass, thus reducing the weight.

scrubbedexpat091

Franzia is the most widely known boxed wine in the US, its not associated with quality though, but cheap, but there are some smaller boxed wine makers trying to get consumers to rethink wine in a box with higher quality wines.

Boxed wine has been around in the US at least in California for most of my life, it was at most father gatherings because it was cheap.

Rete

Their milk comes in plastic manufactured containers in the US. They don't in Canada???

BristolUK

Purely from a cost POV I'd probably stick with bottles if I was in the UK. Just looking at Sainsburys where their own Chardonnay (I remember) was perfectly fine and I see the bottle price is £4.50 while the box is £13, equivalent to £4.33.

I remember Stowells wine boxes were good enough when there was a bigger price difference.

In my bit of Canada there's little to recommend boxes. The first thing I see is the majority are Canadian. I've tried many Canadian wines and the only ones I found drinkable were an Ice Wine (Dessert) and a Rosé.

Looking on the NB Liquor site I see some non-Canadian wines in boxes that either don't have bottle equivalents for me to try first or do have them but but $10 for a 1L bottle indicates to me a cheap wine that I won't like.

Add in that my tastes have changed quite a lot regarding wine and I'm constantly disappointed by every red and most whites (even old reliables) to the point half a bottle is left for cooking. If I risk a box, I'm going to have a near endless supply for cooking.

Jerseygirl

I used to bring wine in cartons back from Amsterdam in the early 80s. It was sold in the UK decades ago.

caretaker

I've had a few glasses of wine that came out of boxes, but I've never purchased wine in a box. No doubt it will happen some day.

Siouxie

I was buying white wine in a box in Hong Kong in the 70's too - it was handy to keep in the fridge alongside the Tsing Tao beer, which was bought from the shack down the dirt track at the bottom of the hill, by the cows grazing next to the road We didn't touch San Mig because it was reputed to contain many chemicals at that time.

I keep a box of white and a box of Bodacious smooth red, these days - it's not bad .. (although I much prefer Henry of Pelham Baco Noir Family Reserve or Old Vines).

Jingsamichty

Here in the UK the quality of boxed wine has massively improved. We recently bought 3 boxes of Sauvignon Blanc at different price points to do a blind tasting. First one was from an independent producer, worked out about £15 a bottle . Second was from Waitrose, worked out about £9 a bottle. third was from Aldi, at about £6 a bottle. By the time we'd finished them I couldn't have told you if it was wine, water or whisky.

Danny B

Wine in boxes! whatever next, milk in bags?!

scrubbedexpat091

Don't know. Never bought milk at McDonalds, was thinking more along the lines of the well known drinks, coffee, tea, soda, water.

scrubbedexpat091

Ah please no milk in bags, I hated that in Ontario, such a weird idea and a pain, I prefer containers for milk