Thinking inside the box: Wine Blogging Wednesday #31 announced
Wine Blogging Wednesday (WBW) #31 has been announced, and it’s hot on the heels of WBW #30. These WBW events seem to be picking up speed somehow. Anyway, WBW #31 focuses on wines marketed and sold within non-traditional packaging. In other words, no bottled wines allowed for this particular WBW challenge.
Hmm…an interesting concept, but I’m a little worried about finding a wine that I’d want to drink and that comes packaged in something other than a bottle. On the one hand, it should be easy to store a boxed wine in the fridge once the box has been tapped, so to speak. On the other hand, I can’t possibly use 1-6 liters of wine very easily or very quickly. At least boxed wines are cheap!
Maybe I should take a quick trip to Prague and go back to the insane wine bar there that has multiple Hobbit-like levels and caverns, and that descends a few stories underground. That particular wine bar (I don’t recall the name now) served white and red wine straight from wood casks perched on top of each of the many bars spread throughout the labyrinth of rooms, benches, and tables. Drinking wine at that place was like being a spelunker and finding a bunch of cheap red wine deep underground. I expected to see stalactites growing from the ceiling in this place. I’d love to go back. Then again, the wine tastes unbelievably bad, and it isn’t served in a box.
A funny story: The first time I went to this particular wine bar in Prague, I had already consumed 2 liters of the house beer at a marvelous beerhall called U Fleku. My friends and I led me to the wine bar where I proceeded to drink a liter of their house red wine, which arrives from the bar in plastic pitchers. My chief memory of that night is related to entering the women’s bathroom by accident and having a very amused Czech woman hold the door open for me. Friendly folks, those Czechs.
A quick glance around the Internet tells me that Black Box might be appropriate for this challenge. We’ll see. I’m thinking of pouring a Pinot Noir into an amphora and reviewing that. But that’s cheating.