Symbiose Organic Bordeaux AOP dry – Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Bag-in-Box 2.25 l

A blend of organically grown Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot grapes is the basis for this velvety and well-rounded red wine.

Colour: Bright ruby red with blue reflections
Nose: Intense and fruity with aromas of black cherries and red berries (raspberries, currants)
Palate: A velvety, rounded palate with red fruits, fresh mint and soft tannins. Full and lasting finish.
Recommendation: With veal and grilled red meat.

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 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 enabled the production of 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 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 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 exposure. The liquid is drained 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 and has since established itself primarily in Anglo-Saxon countries, Scandinavia and the wine 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, 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, the bag in the yellow sack and the box in the paper bin. Manufacturing, use, filling and recycling of the Bag-in Box uses 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 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 – furthermore, wine in the Bag-in-Box cannot cork.

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 the Bag-in-Box.