http://www.frenchrabbit.com/
We just got it in our shop. It's a modestly priced french wine. After liking it in a blind tasting, many customers have refused to buy it upon seeing it in the container. They liked the wine, it was in their price range but once they saw it, forget it.
2007-02-16 08:58:28 · 11 answers · asked by LAUGHING MAGPIE 6 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
I didn't thumbs down anyone. How can anyone dish an opinion?
2007-02-16 09:51:51 · update #1
Hi Lisa.
I've been incognito. I had a yahoo stalker.
Amuse.
There are way better wines from France to spend the money on. As you know.
2007-02-16 10:11:32 · update #2
Well, here's my opinion. I hate for this to be misinterpreted as snobbery, but lately when I buy a wine, I want to feel that the people who made the wine really cared about the final product in the bottle. I want to know that the vineyard managers walked through the vineyard weekly, tasting the grapes and choosing just the right time for harvest. I want to know that the wine came from a single vineyard or appelation and that the grapes weren't trucked across a continent before pressing. I want to know that the wine maker and his or her consultant and assistants really put their heart and soul into controlling the fermentation and aging process and in determining the final blend. I want some assurance that if the vintage was particularly bad, the winery management would at least have considered not releasing a wine that year, lest the chateau name be tarnished.
My concern about the box and tetra pak wines is that a lot of these wines, while certainly drinkable, are the product of multi regional blends of bulk wine that otherwise would have been distilled into industrial alcohol. It probably is perfectly fine as table wine for day to day meals, but these days I'm expecting more from the experience.
Just my opinion. My wife, however, has been wanting to try French Rabbit for some time.
2007-02-16 10:07:02 · answer #1 · answered by Amuse Bouche 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hello, Shiraz Princess1 It's been some time since I last saw you in this category.
Anyway, the tetra packs so far here in Quebec are mostly garbage (I have only experienced what was offered at some free tastings) but if the quality is OK I would buy some just as I buy decent quality regular boxed wines (but only when we go to the States where they are so, so, so much cheaper).
What we do refuse to buy are good wines in screw caps; I am very sorry that there are more and more of them.
2007-02-16 09:55:14 · answer #2 · answered by Lisa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that most people think box+wine=bad. I enjoyed it when I tried it, but there is just something so elegant about pouring a wine from a bottle at a dinner. my family loves the packaging for when we go on picnics, though!!! Very easy to use, packing friendly and you don't have to worry about re-corking it or drinking all of it. It's definitely a big thing here in Colorado, with all the outdoor sports! so yes I would, but not if I was serving dinner yo guests. Then I would either buy a bottled wine or a decanter to pour it in first.
2007-02-16 09:34:20 · answer #3 · answered by Living for today and a good wine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have bought some before and I do believe that they have a bad rep. I tried a French called Hot Lips and it was good, French Rabbit was good to I tried the bottle as well as the Tetra pak and a South African one called Frisky Zebras that was good too. I am not going to say they are all good, but I don't think the packaging should play a vital part in a wines success or failure.
2007-02-16 09:07:22 · answer #4 · answered by Sandee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but no. It's been hard enough to switch over to bottle caps and plastic corks. I think that switching to a box is just asking too much.
I tried a box of wine last summer, mostly because it was on sale and from a subdivision of KJ. It was terrible. I ended up tossing it, after much ribbing from my husband about getting it in the first place.
I certainly would never buy a tetra-pak to serve to guests, and it would take A LOT to get me to buy it even just for home consumption.
Edit: I'm trying to figure out why I'd get negged for giving an honest opinion. An opinion that was asked for. Don't agree with me, fine. But neg me because I don't like a box of wine? And *I'm* the snob??? Geez. (sorry, this wasn't directed at the asker. Just the others calling people 'snobs' and such).
2007-02-16 09:06:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Here's the problem most tetra-pak wine is crap and has very bad reputation, but I have to admit that there's a few that are good.
This is not very honest, but I've seen a restaurant where they use it as the house wine and put it in unlabeled bottles to make it more presentable, after all you don't have to justify the brand.
2007-02-16 10:21:48 · answer #6 · answered by jczapa7 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wine snobs, but to be truthful, so am I. The packaging is nice, but the boxed wines etc are considered to be "cheap". I would assume, eventually that will be the way it is, but for now, while you can look in a bottle and see the wine, etc ....the packaging is classier.
2007-02-16 09:05:59 · answer #7 · answered by Vanity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like to have a glass of wine right now
2016-05-24 07:40:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on the occasion and the company.
On a special occasion, probably not.
With close family or close friends, at a casual get together, probably would if I liked the wine.
2007-02-16 09:06:48 · answer #9 · answered by Jack Chedeville 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
snobs. who cares what the packaging is as long as the product is good. personally if i liked it i would just get a wine carafe and transfer some of it in to that to serve to my guests. some people are just dumb like that.
2007-02-16 09:18:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋