Uncle Sam Got Our Wine

We finished our taxes today and like a lot of people we know, we owe big bucks to Uncle Sam this year.  I'm trying to not get too bummed out about it but certainly some things are going to have to give in our monthly budget.  We decided to start with the source of our sanity--wine.
We enjoy a glass most nights of the week with our dinner.  So, we decided to try out a new (to us) brand of box wine:

I'll admit that I get a bit squimish about drinking alcohol, let alone wine, from a plastic bag.  I once put a mixed drink in a Nalgene bottle and the drink ended up tasting chemical-ish.  Blech! 
Plus, box wine always conjures up images of college freshman house parties.  Classy, no?  
None the less, we tried the Big House boxed Zinfandal last week and this week we are trying the Big House Red (a blend).  I put the wine carafe to work tonight to classy it up and help the wine breathe.  It seems silly for boxed wine, but it's all mental for me because the wine is actually pretty good for a value wine. 

Affection for wine runs in the family:

Well, hello there! 

The box of wine holds 3 liters and retails for $18.99.  With tax it breaks down to about $5 a bottle... a value wine.  My overall impression with this wine is that it is one of the better tasting $5 wines. 
Here's some verbage from the packaging:
"Instead of 4 glass bottles, you are reducing packaging waste by 92% and carbon emissions by 55%."  Is this suppose to make us feel better about drinking wine from a cardboard box?!  Furthermore, the "patent pending design prevents oxidation.  So every glass tastes as fresh and flavorful as if the wine was just opened, even up to six weeks after your first sip." 
Six Weeks?  Get real!  Here's hoping that within six weeks we'll be back to sampling some finer vino.