Many wine connoisseurs will have a hard time with this. If the aging is done in the barrels and the wine produced will be consumed within a year, the box should have equal quality wine arrive at the table as a bottle. To go a step further, the box does not allow air back into the container unless it is miss-handled. The airlock on a box wine allows the wine to last up to 6 weeks after the first glass is dispensed.

In a boxed wine, only about 5% of the distribution weight is the package, where in bottled wines 50% is the bottle. The carbon footprint to deliver the wine in bottles is very large. Also, there are chemicals used to process the glass bottles that can be avoided when we use the box.

The related link has a lot of information. The bottom line is that we will see more boxed wines as we learn to be more responsible with our impact on the environment.

Another good link to read: Yahoo Green on Boxed Wine