Sangria Maria Ole 3L Bag-in-Box - fruity sweet red wine drink

Color: Red
Nose: Citrus scent: oranges, lemons, with a spicy note.
Palate: Sweet, fresh, smooth and round on the palate.
Recommendation: This drink is best served very cold, possibly with a few orange or lemon slices.

General information about our Bag-in-Boxes:

Hose, Jug, Amphora

It was a long journey from glass as a luxury item - as in antiquity - to today's mass product, soda-lime glass. This type of glass is used for the production of bottles, packaging, drinking glasses, and mirror or window glass (flat glass).
In earlier times, glass production was very expensive and unreliable. So wine, oil, beer, and other liquids were filled into jugs, amphorae, or leather drinking skins. Only the techniques of glass blowing and glass pressing made it possible to produce bottles in large numbers.

However, glass bottles have serious disadvantages: They are fragile, heavy, require a relatively large amount of storage and shelf space, are difficult to seal (the old "cork problem"), and even more difficult to reseal after opening, and their environmental footprint is not exhilarating even with consistent recycling.

Good wine in new bags

A bag-in-box packaging (literally "bag in a box") consists of an inner plastic bag ("bag") for the liquid and an outer corrugated cardboard packaging ("box") that protects the bag from mechanical damage and light exposure. The liquid is dispensed from the bag via a tap. The bag's contents decrease without air entering the bag and without oxidation occurring.
The principle was invented in 1955 as a liquid container by William R. Scholle and was probably first used as wine packaging in 1965 by an Australian winemaker. Since then, it has become popular mainly in Anglo-Saxon countries, Scandinavia, and the wine-producing country of France.

In New Zealand, Australia, or the USA, a considerable proportion of wine production is already sold in bag-in-box. In Scandinavia and Great Britain, many fruit juices and dairy products are also packaged this way, in addition to wine. In Germany, it has so far been popular mainly with discounters offering wines from Southern Europe and for wine exports from renowned German wineries. The "Bag-in-Box" is increasingly finding favor with us winemakers and connoisseurs.

Bag-in-Box beats glass

Bag-in-Box is more environmentally friendly, ecologically and economically cheaper to produce, saves weight and volume during transport and storage (thus fuel during transport), and is easy and good to recycle: the bag goes into the yellow recycling bin and the box into the paper recycling bin. Production, use, filling, and recycling of the Bag-in-Box consume less material, thus approximately 80% less energy and less water than a glass bottle. All in all, the Bag-in-Box causes over 80% less CO2 emissions compared to the glass bottle.

In addition, due to the principle of the bag and tap, no air comes into contact with the contents after opening, so the wine remains enjoyable for at least 4 weeks after opening. There are also no negative effects on the taste due to the plastic of the bag – and wine in a Bag-in-Box cannot be corked.

However: Bag-in-Box is not suitable for long-term storage of wine. The Bag-in-Box with wine should not be stored for longer than two years. Therefore, we only offer ready-to-drink wines in Bag-in-Box.