Among my admittedly elitist friends, we prefer to call wine in a box the spacebag of doom. Is there a reason behind this? Of course. The box is where wine goes to die. Sure, it's cheap, its convenient, and if you don't have taste buds its not even that bad. But really....red wine. In a plastic bag. Red wine needs time to breathe, otherwise, you won't get the complexity of the flavors. In a more practical and less taste bud oriented review...The spacebag causes black outs, the worlds worst hangovers, involuntary nights spent as bums, and mud all over everything. You think I kid, but drink enough spacebag to get drunk. Call me in the morning and tell me about your night, if you remember. Otherwise, tell me the story of walking out of your apartment, spacebag dangling loosely from your hand, at 3 a.m. Now you're at a pay phone, you aren't quite sure where... You're covered in mud...You think you're head is going to explode... You have a card in your pocket for Chicks-with-Dicks...And you don't know where your pants are, but could you maybe get a ride home?

Allright, allright....I'll address the pros to wine in a box. There is, reportedly, one that doesn't taste that bad. Comes from a white-wine drinker though, so clearly, he cannot be trusted, and has no taste. It *is* a source of cooking wine in cheap, excessive quantities, very handy, if you cook a lot with wine-and sometimes I do. Also, Bums. Wine in a box is *great* for bums, its cheap, they can drink it, and when they're done, they can live in it!

There you have it boys and girls. The truth about spacebags.

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