Bag-in-Box – Vin de Pays d'Oc – Cinsault – Rose – 3 L

Color: Very pale pink
Nose: Very expressive, fruity with aromas of red fruits like strawberry and spicy notes.
Palate: Round and lively. This rich wine has a great length on the palate and develops red fruit flavors.
Recommendation: Pairs very well with cold dishes like salads, grilled meat and cheese, as well as fondue and raclette.

General information about our Bag-in-Boxes:

Hose, Jug, Amphora

It was a long way from glass being a luxury good – as in ancient times – to today's mass-produced soda-lime glass. This type of glass is used for making bottles, packaging, drinking glasses, and mirror or window glass (flat glass).
In earlier times, glass manufacturing was very expensive and unreliable. So, wine, oil, beer, and other liquids were filled into jugs, amphoras, or leather drinking skins. Only the techniques of glass blowing and glass pressing enabled the mass production of bottles.

However, glass bottles have serious disadvantages: they are fragile, heavy, require relatively a lot of storage and shelf space, are difficult to seal (the old "cork problem"), and even harder to re-seal after opening, and their environmental footprint is not great even with consistent recycling.

Good Wine in New Skins

A Bag-in-Box package (literally translated as "bag in a box") consists of an inner bag ("bag") made of plastic for the liquid and an outer packaging made of corrugated cardboard ("box"), which protects the bag from mechanical damage and light. The liquid is dispensed from the bag via a tap. The contents of the bag 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 by an Australian winemaker in 1965. Since then, it has become established, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, Scandinavia, and the wine country of France.

In New Zealand, Australia, and the USA, a considerable proportion of wine production is already sold in Bag-in-Boxes. 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 for wines from Southern Europe and for the wine exports of renowned German wineries, but the "Bag-in-Box" is increasingly finding friends among 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, with the bag going into the yellow sack and the box into the paper bin. Production, use, filling, and recycling of the Bag-in-Box consume less material, thus about 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, because of the principle with the bag and tap, no air gets to the contents even after opening, so the wine remains drinkable 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 cork.

But: 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 exclusively offer ready-to-drink wines in Bag-in-Boxes.