Bottles is supposed to be an easy, gui driven app for running windows apps in a container in Linux.
I am wondering if any of you users of Win apps have tried it.?
Is it better than Wine?
Thankfully, there are no Windows apps I care to run in any form.
I used to use bottles, but too much waste although I recycle what I can. Now moved on to boxes of wine. Before 3 l size but today at lidl they had 5l boxes cheaper than 3l. So I bought 20l in the hope it lasts me to the end of the month … Rose of course and wineof our region, I read an item about the wine lake in france so trying my bit to reduce it. Also thinking 5 fruits a day = 5 glasses of grapes.
To quote from the salvation army … abstention I will drink to that !
Just in case you are worried it’s not serious my drinking !
I assume lidl is your local version of Trader Joe’s. I have found that boxed wine is the best choice for me. The wine is lovely, and the box is recyclable. The mylar bladder is compactly disposable.
Guess so 5l for 8 euros, pink wine cannot beat it.
An Australian invention!
I often wonder why people will spend hundreds ($, euros, pounds, etc) for spoiled grape juice. It all tastes the same to me.
When I go to the supermarket and see bottles of wine at silly high prices, I do wonder. How can you tell if its good or not. Especially red which I dont like.
We live in an area with winaries wbich depend on tourists to survive. They have grape vines, but they are just for show. The wine arrives from Sydney on a truck during the week. On the weekend the yuppie tourists arrive, buy the wine at inflated proces, then cart it back to Sydney.
There are stranger ways to make a living…
Read about it here
BTW… bottles comes in a flatpak, not a cask.
You cannot, unless you taste it.
I always thought Aussies were beer lovers.
Interesting, I’m having a wee bit of trouble running Sims 4 on Wine recently. If you minimise the programme or the computer locks because you’ve nipped away for a coffee, it has a canary. I’ll try Bottles and report back.
Funnily enough, am studying right now for my next WSET exam. This isn’t necessarily completely universal worldwide, but their typical Systematic Approach to Tasting rates balance, intensity, length, complexity. You score each of the four criteria and then that falls on this scale: faulty - poor - acceptable - good - very good - outstanding. Faulty is self-explanatory; a poor wine falters on all four criteria; an acceptable wine scores positively in one criteria; good scores positively against two of the criteria; very good against three; and outstanding shows positively against all four.
Unfortunately, I have one. I run it in a VM when needed.
I was looking for an alternative app, searched for grapes and failed. But rasin looks more promising some whit suggested sultanas but the vines needed tying… All too fruity!
Not necessarily…
My German ancestors on my dad’s side came to Australia to grow vineyards… They were indentured labourers around 1850 - but eventually worked away their debt then estabilished their own wineries, in the Hunter Valley of NSW…
And several other winegrowing regions in Australia, were also settled by German vignerons, like The Barossa Valley…
Most think of france as the wine capital, but of course in the 19th century a big part of the production and plants were lost to phylloxera plague, so now most of the original plants came from the States and napa valley.
There must be some chemical analysis that would define a good wine.
Piease do … lots of people try to use Wine,. We need to know if this ‘bottles’ thing is better. It needs someone who has used Wine to test it.
No, it’s simpler, no chemistry needed. If it doesn’t taste like battery acid and I can drink it without getting a headache, it’s OK. 
Water would pass that test.