Bag-in-Box – IGP Oc Cabernet-Syrah – 3 L

Color: ruby red
Nose: An intense bouquet of cherry & currant, underlined by a slightly delicate, spicy note.
Palate: With its powerful aroma, this wine is beautifully balanced and well-structured.
Recommendation: This wine pairs perfectly with dark meat, dishes with sauce, Peking duck, and goose. It fully develops its flavor with strong cheese.

General information about our Bag-in-Boxes:

Hose, Jug, Amphora

It was a long journey from the luxury good of glass – as in antiquity – to today's mass product, soda-lime glass. This type of glass is used for making bottles, packaging, drinking glasses, and mirror or window glass (flat glass).
In earlier times, glass manufacturing was very expensive and unreliable. So wine, oil, beer, and other liquids were filled into jugs, amphorae, or leather wineskins. Only the techniques of glassblowing and glass pressing made it possible to produce bottles in large numbers.

But 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 balance 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. 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 and has since become established primarily 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, in addition to wine, many fruit juices and dairy products are also packaged this way. In Germany, it has so far been popular mainly 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 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 bin and the box in the paper bin. The production, use, filling, and recycling of the Bag-in-Box consumes less material, thus about 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, the wine remains enjoyable for at least 4 weeks after opening. There are no negative effects on the taste due to the plastic of the bag either – and wine in the 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 ready-to-drink wines in the Bag-in-Box.