Bird Poo said:

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I occasionally get the "black box" wine because it won't spoil after you have a glass. It's been $20 per box for the last 20 years but now you can find it for $16.

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Do you slap the bag after you've taken a big swig?

Bird Poo said:

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I occasionally get the "black box" wine because it won't spoil after you have a glass. It's been $20 per box for the last 20 years but now you can find it for $16.

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Leftover wine? That's a thing?

One thing that always blew my mind was how much low quality alcohol gets sold. I don't think a post boomer world will be chock full of the cheapest, sweetest wine and the most rot gut liquor known to man. It won't go away, but that market will certainly shrink.

Not to hijack, but beer might be on the brink too...

BREAKING 🚨: Beer

Beer Shipments on track for worst year since the 1980s 📉🍺 https://t.co/NEH1BE0vAm pic.twitter.com/RiFd4nNUbT

— Barchart (@Barchart) February 26, 2026

I wonder the scope of this though. Is this all beer, just terrible American light beer, craft beers?

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The largest generation in history is dying off. Of course we're going to see contraction in industries that are inherently luxury oriented.

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Millennials are the largest generation in American History.

And while I do hate me some Boomers and consider them by far the worst generation, we can't pin this on them.

The wine industry like most of the booze industry got too big and now we have way too many wineries and a glut of relatively low quality grapes.

Same thing in the beer industry. My dad had his choice of basically Stroh's, Pearl, and a few national brands and I can now choose from at least 60 different options at cut down to the finest distinction of random fruity varieties of IPA, pretzel beers, and cherry mocha stouts

Same thing with Bourbon and Vodka and other formerly stable industries.

Capital needs to leave these industries as there is way too much supply.

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They are being replaced with whineries.

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Most excellent!

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Thank you for your patience.

It was a very thought provoking OP and very well stated.

I should probably seek treatment for PTS:

Posting Tourette Syndrome.

A different perspective. I have type 2 diabetes, and am using a GLP1. Almost as soon as I started taken the medication I almost completely lost my taste for, or desire for alcohol. I used to enjoy a glass of wine with a meal, but now actively dislike the taste of even a "good" wine. Every now and then, I think "I'd like a beer with this," and after a sip or two I'm done. Same goes for mixed drinks. I have a couple of bottles of good scotch, and a few good rye's, neither of which I've touched in four years.

Given the proliferation of GLP1's, if others have similar side effects, I can see it really impacting sales.

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Most wineries are ass my dude

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You're not wrong.

Last time I was in the Hill Country I hit half a dozen wineries and all their wines tasted the same. It makes sense, seeing as they all mostly get their juice from the same place up in the Panhandle.

I can get better wine for the and price or less at HEB.

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You went to the wrong wineries. There's a few making very good, world class wines. And those wineries don't use the grapes you experienced.

are there even any Boomers left?

I mean my step dad is 83!

OK, so in 10-15 years we can expect another movie about wine to drive sales again like the Sideways affect.

Imagine watching an AI-generated movie on your neuro implants about wine.

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are there even any Boomers left?

I mean my step dad is 83!

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Your step dad is NOT a Boomer (1946-1964), he is from the Silent Generation (19281946).
He is likely to have been born in 1943.

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LMCane said:

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are there even any Boomers left?

I mean my step dad is 83!

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Your step dad is NOT a Boomer (1946-1964), he is from the Silent Generation (19281946).
He is likely to have been born in 1943.

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1943 BB

Before Bose.

Shiner or nothing.

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Bird Poo said:

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I occasionally get the "black box" wine because it won't spoil after you have a glass. It's been $20 per box for the last 20 years but now you can find it for $16.

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I wish the good wineries would do box wine for that reason. An opened bottle goes bad in a day.

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It's called a Coravin people.

Buncha rooks

Sounds like Boomers are misnamed.

Cobra39

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Bird Poo said:

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I occasionally get the "black box" wine because it won't spoil after you have a glass. It's been $20 per box for the last 20 years but now you can find it for $16.

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I wish the good wineries would do box wine for that reason. An opened bottle goes bad in a day.

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It's called a Coravin people.

Buncha rooks

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Coravin is for amateurs with too much money.

40lb Argon tank with sparging gun!

GEN X drinks alone

Can confirm that the Xennials are continuing to do our part to keep the alcohol industry alive.

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Bird Poo said:

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I occasionally get the "black box" wine because it won't spoil after you have a glass. It's been $20 per box for the last 20 years but now you can find it for $16.

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I wish the good wineries would do box wine for that reason. An opened bottle goes bad in a day.

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It's called a Coravin people.

Buncha rooks

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Sour gripes.

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Sounds like Boomers are misnamed.

Cobra39

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As with Generation X and Millennials:

Baby Boomboxers.

Boomers always thinking of themselves. Screw all of them for dying without providing a wine safety net first!

I'm a boomer and I'm not taking the blame for this! Wine messes with my stomach so I never drink it.

Also learned in one of Aggiehawgs recent posts that I'm not actually a boomer but rather Gen Jones.

This is good news. Wine sucks.

Wine tastes like piss.

Not sure why lol'olds love it

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Wine tastes like piss.

Not sure why lol'olds love it

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How would you know?

You drink piss?

itsyourboypookie said:

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Wine tastes like piss.

Not sure why lol'olds love it

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You can take the roughneck out the oilfield but you cant take the oilfield out of the roughneck.

Logos Stick said:

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Not to hijack, but beer might be on the brink too...

BREAKING 🚨: Beer

Beer Shipments on track for worst year since the 1980s 📉🍺 https://t.co/NEH1BE0vAm pic.twitter.com/RiFd4nNUbT

— Barchart (@Barchart) February 26, 2026

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1) Holy Y-axis manipulation batman!
2) This isn't an economic phenomenon. It is just a generational difference in intoxication preference.

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GEN X drinks alone

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With nobody else.

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Burpelson said:

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GEN X drinks alone

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With nobody else.

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I have to since most of my friends quit drinking.

I stopped drinking 3 years ago. I'm a quitter unlike the boomers who came before me.

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Wine tastes like piss.

Not sure why lol'olds love it

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You've never tasted good wine. Hint, if it's under ten bucks at a restaurant or a priest is involved, yes the wine does indeed taste like (I could imagine) piss does.

Good wine is transcendental, and has been enjoyed by humans for thousands of years.

For the first ten years of our marriage, The Hubs and I had wine with dinner most nights. My Mom loved wine and would order fine wines by the crate with ten bottles each So it was no cost to us and generally around.

Then we started drinking dirty vodka martinis for cocktail hour before dinner and stopped drinking wine. The Hubs will have some wine on occasion but I generally do not. I do cook with a lot of wine. I have a pork stew recipe with a whole bottle of chardonnay that is to die for, as an example.

If we stop the martini habit we'll probably go back to more wine as cocktail hour spirit of choice.