Below is the list of wines they selected, along with their tasting notes. Let us know if you agree with their selection or tell us your top boxed wine pick!

Reds:

2009 Alandra Alentejo Red: A rustic, country red from Portugal’s Herdade do Esporão with moderate tannins and plenty of red fruit. Try it with grilled and roasted pork or oily fish like sardines. (Importer: HCG Imports)

2009 Big House Cardinal Zin Beastly Old Vines California Zinfandel: A dialed-down style that has balanced berry fruit, is nicely made and is still big enough to accompany barbecue and sausages. The favorite of the Big House lineup.

2009 Black Box Wines Central Coast Shiraz: Black Box was an early entry into premium boxed wines nearly a decade ago. Give the bold berry flavors and hint of gaminess a slight chill – especially if it’s a hot day.
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2008 Powers Washington Cabernet Sauvignon: The most varietal and well-structured Cabernet of those tasted.

Whites

2010 Duca del Frassino Venezie IGT Garganega-Pinot Grigio: A Soave-like wine with depth, breadth and a slight amaro-bitter almond note on the finish. Or try the 2010 Duca del Frassino Venezie IGT Durello-Chardonnay ($19, 12%) with simple grilled chicken or white-fleshed fish.
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2010 La Petite Frog Coteaux du Languedoc Picpoul de Pinet: If your palate prefers leaner wine, you’ll enjoy this white from southern France, with its zippy citrus and mineral hints. (Importer: Kysela Pere et Fils)

2009 R. Muller Landwein Rhein Riesling: The German category of Landwein (country wine) falls between tafelwein (table wine) and the QbA designations. Apricot and lichee; lighter-bodied and relatively sweet, but still considered off-dry.

2010 Trinchero Family Estates Wine Cube California Sauvignon Blanc: Slightly grassy and very varietal, with bright lemon and lime peel, stone fruit aromas and flavors. A terrific option for your go-to summer white, while the 2009 Wine Cube Pinot Noir ($17, 13.5%) is a perfect red for salmon.

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Tasting Notes

Seleção Branco is a blend of Chardonnay, Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc wines of the same vintage. This wine is light color, with a greenish-yellow hue. It has a pleasant bouquet with a light touch of wood in the background. Aroma descriptors include citrus, coconut, apricot, apple, white flowers. Seleção Branco is light on the palate with well-balance acidity and a pleasant and lingering finish. This wine’s ideal serving temperature is between 8º and 10ºC.

Food Pairings

It goes well with fish and most meats. Its excellent acidity and freshness ask for light and mild dishes. Try it with green salads, rocket and dried tomatoes, pizza with vegetables or tuna. It pairs well with seafood, pasta with light sauces, chicken, and shrimp.

Technical Characteristics

• Manual harvest into 20kg crates. Average production: 10 to 12,000 kg/ha.
• Selection in the vineyards during harvest
• Mechanical destemming and immediate chilling at 8º- 10ºC
• Pneumatic pressing
• Alcoholic fermentation: 10 % in new American oak barrels and 90% in stainless steel tanks at 15º C.
• Aging: the wines are mixed and subjected to cold tartaric stabilization, followed by filtration and bottling.

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The «Vino Župa» Wine Company was started in 1956 in the Župa region of Yugoslavia (currently Serbia) and was well-known since the 12th century for its great wines. In 50 years of its existence the company has grown from a small enterprise into a large manufacturing and trade association, primarily focusing on the production of traditional Serbian grape and fruit wines, liquors, strong alcoholic beverages, as well as fruit juices.

Vino Župa Riesling Tasting Notes

This white dry table wine is produced of best Italian Rieasling grapes, with several other added white varieties grown in the Župa region of Serbia. This wine has a very specific and harmonius fruit-flower flavor and taste. Nice dry finish.

Food Pairing

Serve cooled with poultry, fish, seafood and salads.

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Easy drinking for any occasion – Black Tower stands for pure, uncomplicated wine enjoyment. This wine is particularly popular with the younger generation, who want to explore beyond traditional wine values.

Black Tower has represents German wine overseas since 1967. Today, we export the famous ‘black tower’ to 54 countries around the world, including Great Britain, Brazil, Canada, Korea and Sweden. Black Tower is the best-loved German wine brand worldwide: we sell twelve million bottles a year – more than any other German wine producer.

Black Tower Dry Riesling Tasting Notes

The result is a cool climate Riesling at its best with ripe peach and apricot aromas and flavours. Full of fruit this smooth dry wine has a long lingering finish.

Food Pairing

Serve Black Tower Dry Riesling well chilled as the perfect refreshing aperitif to enjoy with friends. Or try it with dishes such as lemon chicken, dover sole or barbecued rainbow trout or wall-eye.

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Fox Valley Winery specializes in creating small lots of handcrafted, award-winning wines—many made from estate grown, single-vineyard Illinois grapes. The Faltz family prides themselves on the high quality of the grapes used to produce their wine. This full-service winery and tasting room is located on Route 34 in Oswego, Illinois.

Fox Valley Old Glory Red Tasting Notes

Our #1 selling wine, voted as Illinois’ Best Riesling.  Semi-sweet, soft and fruity on your palate, and great with everything!  This box contains 3 liters of wine – the equivalent of 4 bottles – but is the price of 2 bottles!  A great value and a great way to Go Green!

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Where to Buy Fox Valley Wines

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Recently the San Francisco Chronicle published an article entitled “Have a Picnic With These Wines.” This article focused heavily on wines packaged in alternative formats i.e. bag-in-box, PET bottles and Tetra Paks. They mentioned that box wine is great to bring along to a picnic because of transportation conveniences and the ability for wines to be kept fresher longer.

Plus, if you and your picnic pals can’t quite polish off a box in the park, you can bring it home and it will be good for another couple of weeks!

Here are their top boxed wine picks:

2008 Black Box Wines Columbia Valley Riesling

2007 Bota Box California Cabernet Sauvignon

2008 La Petite Frog Coteaux du Languedoc Picpoul de Pinet

2007 Red Truck California Red Wine

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Hauswein.de leads a small assortment of fastidious everyday-life wines, which can be ordered exclusively on their internet shop. The connection of simplicity and quality is program and shows up also in the everyday life-suited packing form, bag-in-box. This principle is not only economic, but keeps the wine fresh in the package for more than 2 months.

Hauswein.de Riesling Tasting Notes

Clear transparent structure. Altogether wonderful, refreshing, and also quite elegant.

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