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What's Next, Wine in Sippy Cups?

Bad or ordinary wines won't be better into a glass bottle than into a tetra pak....How about the price? Are theese cheaper than the same wine in bottles?

Paco Torras at 1:00PM on 03/23/07

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Lia,
I live in Rio and I can say that the list is good. My favorites are the Jobi, Bracarense (where I had lunch yesterday) and Caneco Gelado do Mário where are the best codfish balls in Rio, but is not in Rio...is in a city nearby.

Paco Torras at 12:03PM on 03/23/07

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What's Next, Wine in Sippy Cups?

Bad or ordinary wines won't be better into a glass bottle than into a tetra pak....How about the price? Are theese cheaper than the same wine in bottles?

Paco Torras at 1:00PM on 03/23/07

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Rio's 10 Best Butecos

Lia,
I live in Rio and I can say that the list is good. My favorites are the Jobi, Bracarense (where I had lunch yesterday) and Caneco Gelado do Mário where are the best codfish balls in Rio, but is not in Rio...is in a city nearby.

Paco Torras at 12:03PM on 03/23/07

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What's Next, Wine in Sippy Cups?

Tetra Paks, plastic bottles, and other non-glass packaging for wine is becoming more and more prevalent here in Ontario due to the LCBO (the government-owned liquor agency & retailer) being on a big environmental kick. The logic is that lighter packaging means less fuel is used for transportation. The same logic is also causing them to carry a lot more canned beer than they have in the past.

Not being much of a wine drinker, I don't really have an opinion one way or another, but one of our local wine writers devoted much of his column this weekend to these wines, and didn't care for many of them

GregClow at 4:15PM on 03/25/07

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What's Next, Wine in Sippy Cups?

Such containers have existed for decades in Italy. When I was studying at university there, the fairly decent plonk (the equivalent of a vin de pays) was available in 250ml tetra-paks. These cost 20 lire (less than 20 Canadian cents at the time). Very handy.

No, these aren't for fine wines, but they can be a useful means of serving plonk. And hey, wine IS (fermented) fruit juice...

lagatta at 4:11PM on 03/25/07

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What's Next, Wine in Sippy Cups?

Paco: These were $3 a pop. So you'd think they'd be comparable to a $9 750mL bottle.

Adam Kuban at 1:13PM on 03/23/07

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