Chateaux Cardboard Red

goodday
i currently have in chateau cardbord a remano tawny port and a coolabah lambrusco both tend to warm 1 up after a couple

steve

Yep. Chateau Cardboard ...4lt Morris PRESSINGS Dry Red. This box is normally a tad dearer than the usual $8-10 ones. When there was a glut of red a year or so ago some of the best wines were 'casked' and the blends are quite good.

We have 8 litres of Penfolds Muscat packed in the truck ready for our trip to WA next week. Still have to pack a slab of VB as well but starting to run out of space....lol

Now you are talkin

we take 2lt handbags of DeBortoli port and Yalumba merlot and shraz
have found the 4lt handbags you can strike a decoy occasionaly

cheers Mac

Hey Steve,
can't go past the 2Lt Banrock Station in the Merlot,if the milk runs out I have it on my cornflakes ;-)) And the good old Morris port is the pick.

Athol

As Willem said above the Morris Pressings range is top stuff in casks but way cheaper than bottled. Morris Pressing Cab Sav is my poison of choice at moment even at home as an everyday drop. $18 at Woolies for 4 litres which works out to about $3.40 a bottle (750ml).

Cheers
Muddy

I have been taking bottles in those 6-bottle cardboard carriers you get these days, and stand them upright in the trailer storage bin. No breakages so far.

I also get the screw tops instead of corkers for resealing.

Yep re the Morris brew - 4L pressings shiraz (black box - mainly red text) is my pick at $18 - we take a bottle or two for special cook-up nights also - recently tried another Morris 4L shiraz/cabernet (not the pressings) and IT WAS AWFUL - damn near undrinkable - but I was desperate, and in the wilds - with Oz awash with good cheap wine, that was a particular crime I still can't forget.
The 2L Yalumba casks (not the cheapies - the premium line) are said to possibly be the best cask wines around (but dearer per litre).
I don't buy cask fortifieds - I take some from the keg at home, when heading off.....

On any cask check the "best by" or " use by " date and dont buy if even remotely close to said date ,, vino does not get better with age in a chateau decardboard container ,freshest is best so the longest timeframe to best by is the best.

I reckon DeBortoli Cabernet Merlot is the pick of thje 4 litre casks. Nicely rounded but not sweet.

I second the remarks about use by dates. Also look where they are stored, Warm storage is no good.

Phil I

Steve

I have found (from experience) that dust and corrugations can wear the tiniest of holes in cask bladders!

We had to do a 20 litre decant of our casks into a spare water container so we didn't lose this valuable end of day recovery gear. The water container with a tap on the side was a "real" cask. However, it did get us thinking that we should in future source bulk wine from a winery and put it straight into 10 litre containers (with a tap on one of course).

This way we could actually taste the wine before the trip (good excuse for a day out) and perhaps end up paying the same for a good wine as opposed to a premium cask!

Haven't done the reseach yet but watch out for holes in ya bladder!

Andy