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

Color: crimson
Nose: This wine has a very fruity nose (red fruits, blackcurrant, etc.) with aromas of red berry jam.
Palate: Balanced wine with silky tannins and a beautiful length on the palate.
Recommendation: This wine is the perfect accompaniment to meat dishes with sauce or chocolate desserts. Also suitable as an aperitif wine.

General information about our Bag-in-Boxes:

Hose, Jug, Amphora

It was a long way from the luxury good of glass - 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 the past, glass production was very expensive and unreliable. So wine, oil, beer and other liquids were filled into jugs, amphorae or leather wineskins. Only the techniques of glass blowing and glass pressing enabled the production of 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 close (the old "cork problem") and even more difficult to reseal after opening, and their environmental balance is not intoxicating even with consistent recycling.

Good wine in new skins

A Bag-in-Box packaging (literally "bag-in-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. The liquid is dispensed from the bag via a tap. The contents of the bag are reduced 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 primarily in Anglo-Saxon countries, Scandinavia and the wine-growing country of France.

In New Zealand, Australia or 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 primarily with discounters selling wines from Southern Europe and for the wine export of renowned German wineries. The "Bag-in-Box" is increasingly gaining 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 in transport and storage (thus fuel during transport) and is easy and good to recycle, the bag in the yellow bag and the box in the paper bin. 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 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 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. That is why we only offer ready-to-drink wines in Bag-in-Boxes.