Cromwell's Royal 3 Years - Fine Scotch Whisky aged in oak barrels 3L Bag-in-Box

↳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 manufacturing was very expensive and unreliable. Thus, 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 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 reseal after opening, and their environmental footprint is not exhilarating even with consistent recycling.

Good Wine in New Bags

A bag-in-box packaging (literally translated as "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 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 widely accepted, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, Scandinavia, and wine-producing 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, in addition to wine, many fruit juices and dairy products are also packaged this way. In Germany, while previously popular mainly with discounters offering wines from Southern Europe and for wine exports from renowned German wineries, the "bag-in-box" is increasingly finding favor with us winemakers and with 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. Production, use, filling, and recycling of the bag-in-box consume less material, thus approximately 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 be corked.

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 wines that are ready to drink in bag-in-box.