This week on Food For Thought, why you will see more and more Tetra-Pak wines on the shelves of your local wine or liquor shop in the years to come. The boxes look cool, does the wine match up to the packaging? Listen to the audio file, and for more information, here’s the Tetra Pak story of how French Rabbit wines in Tetra Paks first came to Canada. If you go to this link on the BC Liquor Distribution Branch website you can download as a pdf file the spring edition of Taste, which is relatively new publication from the LDB, very ably put together with help from my friend at the branch, Anne Gilmour. Nice work, Anne! On page 61 you will find a feature about the new line of Tetra Pak wines you can find soon in BC Liquor stores, and even if you’re not from BC, check out Anne’s very useful story on outfitting your bar with glassware depending on how much space and how much money you have! That’s on page 30.
Update: The Globe and Mail’s wine writer, Beppi Crosariol, just wrote an amusing little feature with a hint of insouciance on wines in boxes and plastic bottles. Here’s the link. Hopefully it will remain active and not go immediately into the ‘pay’ archives of the newspaper. Let me know if it goes down….
