Posts tagged as Box Wine
Box Wine: Now With Less Ladybug Taint
News you can use about alcohol: "It seems wine is less likely to be ruined by molecules that add an unwanted green vegetable taste if sold in cartons sealed with a thin layer of aluminium. The bad taste – known as the 'ladybug taint' – is caused by chemicals called alkyl-methoxypyrazines that accumulate in wine both from grapes themselves and from remains of ladybug beetles crushed when grapes are processed." The piece does go on to note-correctly-that boxes are good for wine only up to a certain level of quality (in my experience, $4), but really, the whole point of putting this up was to get wider acceptance for the phrase "ladybug taint," so there you go.
