Bag-in-Box – Vin de Pays d'Oc – Cabernet Sauvignon – 3 L

Colour: crimson
Nose: Red fruits, blackcurrant with spicy notes, typical for the grape variety.
Palate: Nice tannin structure, liquorice notes, pleasantly long finish.
Recommendation: Ideal with red meat, charcuterie boards, salads and many cheeses.

General information about our Bag-in-Boxes:

Hose, Jug, Amphora

It was a long way from glass as a luxury good – as in antiquity – to today's mass product, soda-lime glass. This type of glass is used for making bottles, packaging, drinking glasses, and mirror or window glass (flat glass).
In the past, 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 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 exhilarating even with consistent recycling.

Good wine in new skins

A Bag-in-Box packaging (literally "bag in box") consists of an inner bag ("bag") made of plastic for the liquid and an outer packaging made of corrugated cardboard ("box") that 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 in 1965 was probably first used as wine packaging by an Australian winemaker. Since then, it has become widely adopted, especially 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 in this way, in addition to wine. In Germany, it has so far been popular mainly with discounters selling wines from Southern Europe and for wine exports from renowned German wineries, but the "Bag-in-Box" is increasingly finding favour 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 bin and the box into the paper bin. The production, use, filling and recycling of the Bag-in-Box consumes less material, thus approx. 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 no negative consequences for the taste due to the plastic of the bag – and wine in the Bag-in-Box cannot be corked.

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 the Bag-in-Box.