Year: Unknown.
Cost: Free!
Kristina Says: Our first box-wine review to grace this blog, Carlo Rossi has already beat out some bargain-bin bottles by rating "inoffensive." The box boasts that this is a "fruit-forward" wine. I am not sure if that is a desirable quality, but I like the way "fruit-forward" sounds like a boardroom buzzword. This wine is totally shifting some paradigms with a proactive fruit-forward agenda. You could almost say it is thinking outside the box. Almost.
I can definitely say I would consume this wine again, especially if it was once again offered to me for free out of the back of a truck. I can also safely vouch for it as a good base for single-serve microwave spiced wine.
Mike Says: Melville. Bach. Rossi. These are the names we associate with the word "classic", and let me tell you. Rossi is a fucking classic. Although, Rossi is not so much a great American novel classic, Rossi is more of a getting black-out drunk and passing out in your neighbor's broken '72 El Camino classic. If you're too bourgeoisie to sleep in the backseat of a 40 year-old car, maybe Rossi isn't for you. Me? I have a date with a box.
