Bag-in-Box – Chardonnay from France – 3 L

Color: Golden Yellow
Nose: Very expressive, a wide range of aromas: citrus fruits, yellow peach, but also acacia blossom and buttery nuances.
Palate: Round and smooth, with distinct notes of citrus fruits and acacia blossom.
Recommendation: Ideal as an aperitif wine, but also a wonderful accompaniment to fish, poultry, and cheese.

General information about our Bag-in-Boxes:

Hose, Jug, Amphora

It was a long way from glass being a luxury item – as in ancient times – to today's mass product, soda-lime glass. This type of glass is used for manufacturing 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, amphoras, 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 more difficult to reseal after opening, and their environmental footprint is not impressive even with consistent recycling.

Good Wine in New Skins

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 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 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 adopted, especially 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 this way, in addition to wine. In Germany, while previously popular mainly with discounters offering wines from Southern Europe and for wine export by renowned German wineries, the "Bag-in-Box" is increasingly finding favor among us winemakers and connoisseurs.

Bag-in-Box beats Glass

Bag-in-Box is more environmentally friendly, ecologically and economically more cost-effective 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 bin and the box in 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, due to the principle of 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 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. Therefore, we only offer ready-to-drink wines in Bag-in-Box.