Winery - Bota Box
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Tastes like a fruit juice blend of oranges, peaches and apricots, with a kiss of oak flavor. Standard fare, this boxed wine is the equivalent of four regular bottles.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
With ripe tropical fruit, peach, pear and green apple flavors and a nice creamy mouthfeel, this is a good everyday white wine made in the modern, fruit-forward California style. At the equivalent of $4.50 a bottle, it’s a bargain.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
There is absolutely no better value in a California Zinfandel than this boxed wine, the equivalent of four regular bottles at $4.75 each. It’s a pretty wine, dry, silky and flavorful in raspberries, mocha and pepper.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
If more Americans are drinking wine from a box, it’s because of values like this 3L, the equivalent of four regular bottles. The wine is dry, smooth and flavorful, and the blackberries, herbs and spices are pleasant.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
In a recyclable box equaling four normal-size wine bottles, this Malbec is a mighty fine deal, clean and refreshingly made with bright plum fruit, very easy drinking all around.
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Bota Box Malbec - 2009
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The price is right for this boxed Cab, but it’s a pretty rustic wine. It’s simple in candied berry flavors.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
At the equivalent of $4.50 per regular bottle, this Merlot is a pretty good buy. It’s a little rough and peppery, but the dryness helps, and so does the hint of cherry-berry fruit.
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Bota Box Merlot - 2006
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
At the equivalent of about $4.50 a bottle, this Zin in a vacuum-packed box is a good buy. It’s dry, full-bodied and very Zinny, with peppery wild berry, tobacco and herb flavors.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Art gallery openings, backyard barbecues and other occasions when you want a nice, dry, affordable red are suited to this boxed wine, the equivalent of four regular bottles. It has pleasant blackberry, currant and cherry jam flavors.
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Bota Box Shiraz - 2005
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
At the equivalent of $4.75 a bottle, and with the staying power of its vacuum technology, this box wine is a pretty good buy. Bone dry and crisp, it has pleasant citrus fruit, vanilla and peppery spice flavors.
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