How long boxed wine last

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Feel free to contact us. Launched in , Black Box Wines was the first Premium boxed wine in America and the first brand to offer AVA-appellated varietals and vintage dating.

Third, through a meticulous traditional winemaking process, Black Box Wines are crafted to be food-friendly and fruit-forward. Black Box reds stay just as fresh at room temperature.

Oxidation, the chemical reaction that spoils wine, occurs in bottles because the wine is exposed to air. With Black Box, the wine is never exposed to oxygen, so oxidation does not start to take place for at least 6 weeks after opening.

Black Box Wine will stay fresh for at least 6 weeks after opening. Our box contains a vacuum-sealed bag that prevents air from getting in and oxidation from spoiling the wine. Opening your wine is one of the best moments, but then you feel like you have to get through the bottle quickly. After all, you only get about three days, maybe seven before your wine begins to go bad.

As we said in the intro, once you open the box, the wine is good for six weeks. Why does it last so much longer in a box? Instead, the wine gets put into a bag and then into the box. This bag, often made of polyethylene, is airtight. Each time you open the tap to pour some vino, the permeable plastic does let oxygen in, but only in very, very miniscule amounts.

You get a few months out of the box. You can always buy more. Given that boxed wine sits in a plastic bag, you might think the plastic would have an impact on the taste of your vino. After all, you probably sip wine to lower your stress, not raise it. It can also double as mulch for gardeners, giving your boxes new life after you throw them away.

Now, admittedly, the plastic in boxed wine will break down over upwards of 1, years. That said, the decomposition of glass takes far longer, up to a million years. Keep that in mind the next time you think about buying a glass bottle of wine. Perhaps it falls off the countertop, topples out of the wine refrigerator, or slips out of your hand and onto the floor.

Either way, when that happens, your wine is toast. The same is not true of boxed wine. With bottled wine, if you decide you want a red one night and a white the next, you can open two bottles.

That could always change, and we think it will. This is the best before or best by labels. Be sure to check the box for such information. If your box wine has exceeded the six weeks period or the best before date, it is better to discard it as it will taste bad. Although different producers will offer varying shelf life, your box wine is fit for consumption for at least six weeks. If you still want to maximize the shelf life, you can also refrigerate the box wine.

Say you opened a box wine, and you could not finish it. Chances are you kept it away for other days. How can you tell if your box wine is still fit for consumption? How can you tell if your box wine has gone bad? One trick to know whether you can still drink it or throw it out is to smell. There is something called cork taint. Colour is also a great way to tell whether you can drink your box wine or not. If white wine has been exposed to air, it gets browner.

And if red wine has been exposed to air, then it loses its red and purple hue. This is a sign that the wine has gone bad and will not taste good. If the wine smells like a cork, it has been sitting out for far too long. It needs to be discarded. Do not consume the wine. If the box wine has a leak where air can get in, then your wine will be spoiled.