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Boxed Wine in the Round, With a Spigot
By DANA BOWEN

Even shoppers who distance themselves from the boxed-wine aisle have probably wondered: can they package the good stuff that way?

They can, and Daniel Johnnes - a Renaissance man in the wine world - has. He had some help from his friends and partners, the chef Daniel Boulud and the vintner Dominique Lafon of Domaine des Comtes Lafon in Burgundy.

Next week, 2,400 cardboard canisters with three-liter plastic bags of their first Dtour wine - a 2004 chardonnay from Mâcon-Villages - go on sale at stores in New York, New Jersey and Maryland, selling for around $37 (stores are listed at dtourwine.com). The wine will also be poured at Mr. Boulud's Midtown restaurant, DB Bistro Moderne.

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