It usually supposed to be called that one should not look a gift horse in the mouth. While it is probably exactly what you expected to do when you get a sample. This week a box arrived from Kiviks Musteri with a somewhat puzzling content.
Åkesson launched last year a Chateauneuf in boxed and this year it becomes instead a CdR Villages which are packed in cardboard then Åkesson want "it should be easy to choose the best wines in climate-friendly packaging, thus contributing to reducing the burden on the environment" . . The accompanying press release also talks about that, " To provide modern männsikor an opportunity to choose a modern packaging without sacrificing quality" We'll see how it relates to that thing ...
2008 Domaine du Pauline Côtes-du-Rhone Villages Cairanne is a classic Rhone blend the Syrah, Mourvedre and Grenache. The color is amazingly bright purple. The aroma offers a lot of red berries, distinct peppery and garrigue . The taste is medium bodied with bärfrukten in the center. Some spices, balanced acidity and firming tannins.
Sure you can see this as a point of OK wine. It is quite clear without defects, and does not taste bad. I drink one glass but more, I would not have. It is for the mediocre and uninteresting. Better than the few boxviner I tried but puts the 99 crowns wine costs in a bottle, for example, Guigal Cotes-du-Rhone, you get 25 cl less liquid but very much more wine for the money. The idea of \u200b\u200bchoosing packaging based on environmental considerations is, of course, just nonsense. Fixes not to buy a glass bottle so it is better to ignore the wine. Even better for the environment. And health.
The package from Åkesson were also two bottles of apple juice from Kiviks Musteri. They are also sold at Systembolaget. In a glass bottle. My simple and not at all modern view of the matter is that it seems a little incongruent to launch wine in cartons of environmental concerns and then sell apple juice in a glass bottle.
The must was excellent anyway. A made on Cox Orange and Belle de Boskoop had great fresh apple aroma, full flavor and crisp acidity. Gravenstein variant something a little sweeter and rounder. Both, as I said very good, but nothing I would like to drink with meals. The only non-alcoholic alternative to wine to drink is water.
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