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Jul 3, 2015, 12:22 pm
#16
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Sitting in FC (paid FC, FWIW).
Me: Could I have a red wine?
FA: I'm sorry, we are out of red wine... well, actually, we are out of the screw caps. All we have left is the bottles with corks, and they did not give us a cork screw.
Me: I could retrieve a cork screw from my carry-on... Oh, never mind.
Stay classy, VA Ave.
Me: Could I have a red wine?
FA: I'm sorry, we are out of red wine... well, actually, we are out of the screw caps. All we have left is the bottles with corks, and they did not give us a cork screw.
Me: I could retrieve a cork screw from my carry-on... Oh, never mind.
Stay classy, VA Ave.
Jul 3, 2015, 3:20 pm
#18
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Quote from Wine Enthusiast..."Tim Donahue—enology instructor at Walla Walla Community College, Enology and Viticulture—strongly disagrees with cork usage. “Winemakers will spend years on site selection, soil amendments, clonal selection, canopy design and spray programs,” he says, adding, “They will monitor water stress, leaf pull, fruit thin, measure phenolic data… use a 100% sterile bottling line and bottles, and then, just for the hell of it, shove an old piece of tree bark in the neck of the bottle and hope everything works out.”."
Jul 3, 2015, 5:56 pm
#19
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some of the bag-in-box wines we have found at retail in both VA and WA are as good as many bottled varieties, and I for one certainly wouldn't complain if they showed up in DL FC (note, however, "some" excludes the low-priced bulk/mass-market products like Almaden and Franzia and Corbett Canyon)
Jul 3, 2015, 7:43 pm
#20
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Quote from Wine Enthusiast..."Tim Donahue—enology instructor at Walla Walla Community College, Enology and Viticulture—strongly disagrees with cork usage. “Winemakers will spend years on site selection, soil amendments, clonal selection, canopy design and spray programs,” he says, adding, “They will monitor water stress, leaf pull, fruit thin, measure phenolic data… use a 100% sterile bottling line and bottles, and then, just for the hell of it, shove an old piece of tree bark in the neck of the bottle and hope everything works out.”."
Jul 3, 2015, 11:12 pm
#21
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Jul 4, 2015, 5:01 am
#22
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Jul 4, 2015, 9:17 am
#23
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I'm almost surprised that airlines don't stick to screw top wines for domestic FC now that many more wines in the price and quality range served in domestic FC are now being marketed with screw top 750 ml bottles. It would solve the problem of keeping a bottle opener on flights and avoid the problem that sometimes a bottle with a cork can be hard to open.
Jul 4, 2015, 9:28 am
#24
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I'm almost surprised that airlines don't stick to screw top wines for domestic FC now that many more wines in the price and quality range served in domestic FC are now being marketed with screw top 750 ml bottles. It would solve the problem of keeping a bottle opener on flights and avoid the problem that sometimes a bottle with a cork can be hard to open.
Jul 4, 2015, 1:24 pm
#25
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two--They break a lot.
I've carried one of those $0.99, T-shaped plastic corkscrews in my briefcase for years. Only once did it catch a baggage screener's attention, at CDG of all places. Obviously I was willing to part with the corkscrew, but the screener insisted on consulting his supervisor, who allowed me to keep it.
Jul 4, 2015, 1:33 pm
#26
Join Date: Jul 2014
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I know it would cause a perception issue, but they really should use bag-in-box wine. It is a great packaging solution for young wines served by the glass, and even better where weight is an issue. DL isn't serving expensive wine anytime soon in domestic F (sorry folks, the numbers simply don't work), so it wouldn't necessitate a drop in quality levels.
The name of the wine may cause a little confusion on the plane. "Have you found the black box?"
"Why yes...and it was bright and smooth."
Jul 4, 2015, 1:50 pm
#27
Join Date: Mar 2010
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My favorite wine in a box is called Black Box.
The name of the wine may cause a little confusion on the plane. "Have you found the black box?"
"Why yes...and it was bright and smooth."
The name of the wine may cause a little confusion on the plane. "Have you found the black box?"
"Why yes...and it was bright and smooth."
Jul 4, 2015, 7:00 pm
#30
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