One Of The Biggest Myths About Wine Has Been Busted — And We're Shook

When we were in college — or fresh out and partying in someone’s dingy starter apartment — the beverage table at most get-togethers always beheld a box or two of wine. Lukewarm and hardly inviting, that cheap rose or pinot grigio would hit the spot and got us drunk, but it wasn’t exactly sophisticated. Once we made enough money to graduate to “real” wine, we spent an extra $7 and upgraded to the “good stuff” in bottles and never looked back.

But is boxed wine inherently inferior to bottled wine? Is there any real difference in quality or taste? Or did we just fall for an elitist myth?

“Good wine can be found in any package anywhere. It just comes down to somebody who wants to put good wine in there,” Doug Frost, master sommelier and co-founder of Echoland Winery told us, Raj Punjabi and Noah Michelson, hosts of HuffPost’s “Am I Doing It Wrong?” podcast.

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“Many times the boxed wines that we have in the U .S. are pretty good wines,” Frost revealed. “But you can go to places like Australia where a lot of their boxed wines are super serious. I mean, they’re really, really good wines. Canned wine is the same way.”

Mind blown.

Canned wine always felt a little ridiculous to us — as if beer needed a bougie compatriot — but Frost, who is on a mission to demolish the pretension that can scare people off from learning more about wine, gave it to us straight: Good wine simply means that it was made from high quality ingredients, and it can come in whichever package feels right to the winemaker.

The important thing to consider, however, is how long you want the wine to stay fresh.

“The only difference really between a bottle and a can — and a bottle and a