Box Wine Review: Big Green Box Pinot Noir
by emily
My father-in-law and Big Green Box Pinot Noir. I forget the price and I can’t find it online. I think Moe said it was $15.99 or something like that. He got it at BJ’s Wholesale Club.
Before I get into this review, I want to share with you a one-man brainstorming session that happened last Friday in which Billy told me all his ideas for titles for my box wine reviews. I shall post it below.
box of sunshine
smile box reviews
by the boxfull
grab life by the box
put this in your box and drink it
box like a butterfly, drink like a wine (“That’s a complex one cause it’s a quote from a boxer.”)
looks like a box, tastes like a sneaker (ed. note: ???)
this box is for you
it’s my wine in a box
looks like a pump, feels like a sneaker? (ed. note: again. ???)
1) first you open the box 2) then you drink the box
a box on your house
astronaut wine
future sauce
science juice
box fine
box win, e
soap box, wine
Sigh. I bet he would have kept going if I hadn’t said “I have never been more annoyed than I am right now.”
I think I’m going to stick with “Box Wine Review: Whatever Wine” for now, but I thought you might enjoy that.
Anyway, so! Big Green Box Pinot Noir. It was fine! It was drinkable. It’s a pinot noir and I’m beginning to realize that my palate tends to gravitate more towards wetter wines than your average pinot. Not too sweet, just a little less dry. I like an off-dry reisling or a big cab when I’m feeling fancy. So this probably has to do with my own taste, but I only thought it was okay. Drinkable? For sure. But I probably wouldn’t put away more than a glass and a half of this bad boy. But if you like dry reds, get yourself a BJ’s membership and pick some of this up!
At my regular Wine Store (Bev Max, across the street from Ashlee) my friend Bruce always helps me with the selection. We were train buddies commuting to NYC for a time. I’ve been over his house, sampling some of the 1,000+ bottles he has in his wine cellar. I thought I would feint the first time I said, “what have you got in a box?” Came home with Bota Box :)
I’m liking your cheap wine reviews. Allan and also can’t afford anything. But he doesn’t really drink a lot so the wine is all for me. :) The Trader Joe’s one sounds really good.
*Allan and I.