French Rabbit

[fvrwld]

Oh, what you all must be thinking...lol.

Its a backpackable wine... http://www.frenchrabbit.com/fr_us.html

I saw it in this months issuse of The Backpacker so of course when I saw it I had to get it. (just like most of the other things I see mentioned in backpacker). I got the chardonnay and it's pretty good. I paid around $10 a "bottle".

Yes, I know you can always put wine in a Nalgene but I think wine always tastes best out of a freshly opened bottle. I thought some of the wine afficionados here would appreciate knowing of this new product.

Now, if they would just come out with a riesling...

[dog]

Nice . But 1 L for $ 10 looks too good . I'll try . Thanks , fvwld . Doug has to say something - as an expert .
And Rochester's guys have 3 distributors !

[doug]

I took wine on our Allagash canoe trip that was packaged in 1.5L bladders inside a cardboard cube. I think this was made by Kendall-Jackson, it was "fruity-tooty", as the wine manager at my favorite store said, but eminently drinkable. Let's face it, the outdoors does perk up one's taste buds. The problem with putting wine in a nalgene is that it's exposed to too much oxygen (especially with all the shaking inside a backpack.) I've had good success putting wine into a platypus 1L and venting the excess air. If you keep as much of the air out as possible you will avoid excess oxidation and most young red wines will improve with a little "airing". Val, the Riesling at Siamese ponds in November tasted pretty good, didn't it?

Unfortunately there is very little good wine packaged this way. It really makes sense however. Wine would be a lot cheaper and there'd be a lot less refuse, if it all came in 1.5-5L plastic containers. The only wine that needs to be in bottles are more expensive wines where a nice bottle is part of the aesthetics and also any wine that needs to be aged.