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You can get it at US grocery stores and some of it is competitive on quality with other wines in the same or slightly higher price ranges. It's fairly popular for family dinners, e.g. when there aren't guests over but Mom and Dad want a glass.

I could bet $50 you wouldn't tell random BiBs vs random glass bottled wines in a blind tasting.

Thats not the point. I would not even considering buying it in a bottle. So thats a loss for the company that makes that choice.

Plastics also tend to leech into your liquids, for your information, especially over long periods of time, which is very relevant for wine but not as much for your soda

The point is that you probably wouldn't tell it from bottled wines of other brands, that's basically superstition, as is the belief that metallized PET can leach anything into your booze in non-homeopathic quantities.

In Europe it's fairly common to find wine in 3L boxes. The quality varies, but the same is true for the ones you find in bottles.

Supermarkets also buy and bottle their own wines so you often find the same wine in both bottles and boxes.