Well, that was unexpected
Mar. 30th, 2008 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI just bought a bottle of serious wine. In a plastic bottle.
Screw-tops are almost commonplace by now, and I don't think twice; but a plastic bottle...? I didn't even know it was under consideration. (I have long treasured a friend's story of seeing a man sitting on a quay in France, drinking from a plastic bottle simply labelled "Vin", on the principle presumably that you could see for yourself if it was rouge or blanc; but that could as easily have been labelled "Plonk", and this is a different thing altogether.)
It's the same volume of liquid as a standard bottle, and the same diameter, and a good bit shorter to underscore the simple volume of glass; and it has a Best Before date on it, which is July of this year, so no: it is not setting itself up as a long-term substitute, only as a handy portable container for the final part of the process from grape to mouth.
But still. Wolf Blass green label Cabernet Shiraz: it's not a mock-wine.
Screw-tops are almost commonplace by now, and I don't think twice; but a plastic bottle...? I didn't even know it was under consideration. (I have long treasured a friend's story of seeing a man sitting on a quay in France, drinking from a plastic bottle simply labelled "Vin", on the principle presumably that you could see for yourself if it was rouge or blanc; but that could as easily have been labelled "Plonk", and this is a different thing altogether.)
It's the same volume of liquid as a standard bottle, and the same diameter, and a good bit shorter to underscore the simple volume of glass; and it has a Best Before date on it, which is July of this year, so no: it is not setting itself up as a long-term substitute, only as a handy portable container for the final part of the process from grape to mouth.
But still. Wolf Blass green label Cabernet Shiraz: it's not a mock-wine.