Bargain Bin: Yellow+Blue Malbec
Finally! An eco-friendly boxed wine we'll drink
((FROM TASTINGTABLE.COM))
Wine is a carbon Bigfoot: All those heavy glass bottles and time spent on trucks and planes add up. Wine producers have been playing with glass alternatives for years (see Franzia), but we've never tried a boxed wine we could get behind until we were introduced to Yellow+Blue (get it?) by Scott Pactor, the picky palate who owns the beloved, organic-oriented Appellation Wine and Spirits.
The unoaked Argentinean Malbec is made from certified organic grapes, then boated to Canada where it's packaged in paperboard Tetra Paks, a process that produces about a fifth of the greenhouse emissions used to make and move glass bottles.
Eco-friendliness aside, at $12 a liter, it's the perfect fall picnic wine—soft and juicy with ripe plum and blueberry flavors and enough complexity to surprise the wine snobs. Just don't forget to recycle.
distributed by polaner i see. where to buy?
I saw it at Astor Wines, $11.99.....
No, guys. Go to the original article on this (not sure why the owner of the blog isn't posting the original links) -- it has all the info and links to Appellation, which is in Chelsea. It's not available at Astor. Here's the article: http://tastingtable.com/entry_detail/11
Astor has for $11.99 check their web site.....
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Finally! An eco-friendly boxed wine we'll drink
((FROM TASTINGTABLE.COM))
Wine is a carbon Bigfoot: All those heavy glass bottles and time spent on trucks and planes add up. Wine producers have been playing with glass alternatives for years (see Franzia), but we've never tried a boxed wine we could get behind until we were introduced to Yellow+Blue (get it?) by Scott Pactor, the picky palate who owns the beloved, organic-oriented Appellation Wine and Spirits.
The unoaked Argentinean Malbec is made from certified organic grapes, then boated to Canada where it's packaged in paperboard Tetra Paks, a process that produces about a fifth of the greenhouse emissions used to make and move glass bottles.
Eco-friendliness aside, at $12 a liter, it's the perfect fall picnic wine—soft and juicy with ripe plum and blueberry flavors and enough complexity to surprise the wine snobs. Just don't forget to recycle.
- Skinny 9-08-2008 5:40 pm
distributed by polaner i see. where to buy?
- dave 9-08-2008 6:02 pm [add a comment]
I saw it at Astor Wines, $11.99.....
- Skinny 9-09-2008 1:53 pm [add a comment]
where is Astor wines now?
- sarah 9-09-2008 6:18 pm [add a comment]
399 Lafayette St at East 4th St
- dave 9-09-2008 6:42 pm [add a comment]
No, guys. Go to the original article on this (not sure why the owner of the blog isn't posting the original links) -- it has all the info and links to Appellation, which is in Chelsea. It's not available at Astor. Here's the article: http://tastingtable.com/entry_detail/11
- anonymous (guest) 9-15-2008 2:52 am [add a comment]
Astor has for $11.99 check their web site.....
- Skinny 9-15-2008 12:19 pm [add a comment]