Chateau Les Mauberts Bordeaux AOP Bag-in-Wooden-Box 3L Dry Red Wine France

Colour: elegant red
Nose: Intense with aromas of black fruits, red berries, and a hint of vanilla
Palate: A velvety round palate with red and black fruits, blackberry and oak
Recommendation: With veal and grilled red meat.

The Chateau Les Mauberts Bordeaux rests protected from light in the bag within the decorative wooden box.

General information about our Bag-in-Boxes:

Bag, jug, amphora

It has been a long journey from glass as a luxury good – 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 bottled in 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 seal (the old "cork problem") and even more difficult to reseal after opening, and their environmental balance is not exhilarating even with consistent recycling.

Good wine in new bags

A bag-in-box packaging (literally translated as "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 contents of the bag decrease without air entering the bag and without oxidation taking place.
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 and has since become established, 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 particularly popular with discounters selling wines from Southern Europe and for wine exports from renowned German wineries, and 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, the bag in the yellow bin 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, due to the principle with the bag and tap, no air gets into 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 – furthermore, 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 more than two years. Therefore, we only offer ready-to-drink wines in the bag-in-box.