{{Short description|American term for inexpensive table wine}} [[Image:Jug wine.jpg|thumb|right|An open bottle of Carlo Rossi jug wine with a drinking straw.]]
"'''Jug wine'''" is a term in the United States for inexpensive table wine typically bottled in a glass bottle or jug.
Historically, jug wines were labeled semi-generically, often sold to third parties to be relabeled, or sold directly from the winery's tasting room to customers who would often bring their own bottles.<ref name=chron>{{cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/wine/article/A-JUG-FULL-OF-TRADITION-3278393.php|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|title=A jug full of tradition:Wine Country vintners serve up wines straight from the barrel|author=Tara Duggan|date=2008-07-04|access-date=2008-07-04|archive-date=2008-07-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705095443/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/03/WIUK11F2OD.DTL|url-status=live}}</ref> For a period following Prohibition, jug wines were the only domestic wine available for most Americans.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/dining/chi-uncork_jug_7nov07,0,7929197.column|publisher=Chicago Tribune|title=Jug-heads:Retro charm of big bottles still appeal to some|author=Bill Daley|date=2007-11-07|access-date=2024-01-15|archive-date=2013-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326161633/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/dining/chi-uncork_jug_7nov07,0,7929197.column|url-status=live}}</ref> Beginning in the 1960s, when Americans began to consume more premium wine, jug wine took on a reputation for being "extreme value" (bargain-priced premium wine).<ref name=chron/><ref>Julia Flynn Siler: ''The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty'', page 310. Gotham Books, 2007.</ref> Beginning in the late 1980s jug wines have increasingly been labeled varietally to meet consumer demand.
==Common brands== Common brands include Gallo, Carlo Rossi, Almaden Vineyards, and Inglenook Winery. Typical formats include 750 ml and one liter glass bottles, as well as three and five-liter jugs. More recent packaging methods include lined boxes, and plastic bags inside corrugated fiberboard boxes ("bag in a box").<ref name=chron/> [[Image:Jug_wine_refills.jpg|thumb|right|A refilling station for wine jugs in a winery.]]
==See also== * Box wine * Fighting varietal * Flavored fortified wine *Plonk (wine)
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Category:Wine styles Category:Wine terminology