RESOLVED: Explore Your Wild Side
The high-end boxed wine category
RESOLVED: Get Better Branding Say bye-bye to the brown paper bag with Tilted Box, a uniquely-designed bottle carrier made in the USA from corrugated cardboard and offered in an assortment of colors to make taking home your favorite bottle even more exciting. Stylish and functional, with a handle and cut-out window expos- ing the label, Tilted Boxes are fully cus- tomizable with your company's name and logo, making this the chicest option for retailers, or just the perfect gift packaging for any special occasion. Combining form and function? That's a resolution we can get behind!
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isn't exactly new this year, but when this pretty kitty wound up on our tasting table, we were smitten. Herding Cats Merlot/Pinotage, a medium-bodied blend out of South Africa, is packaged in the unique Octavin Home Wine Bar 3L wine box, and is the most stylish bag-in-box we've seen yet, with its chic, cheeky red leopard print (Herding Cats's Chenin Blanc goes the equally sassy leopard-on-yellow route). But this offering isn't just meow-worthy on the outside: In the glass, this is a balanced food friendly cherry-plum sipper that will have you herding back for more. www.OctavinHomeWineBar.com
Tasting Panel Publisher's Pick 96 Points "Head Over Heels in Love"
RESOLVED: Count Your Calories The skinny cocktail trend is hotter than
ever, with more and more products rolling out to cater to our increasing awareness that, yes, what goes in our glass does count as calories. Offering a portable solu- tion to imbibers looking for a way to take their low-cal cocktails with them wherever they go is Zilch, a sugar-free mixer that comes in a packet the size of a tea bag. Offered in Margarita and Strawberry Diaquiri flavors, Zilch has zero calories and zero carbs and is the perfect product for retail shelves even after January's days of resolutions.
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