Bag-in-Box Italienischer medium-sweet BiB 3L – Italy

Color: light green
Nose: Expressive with fruity notes of apple and pear. Slightly powerful, this balanced wine has a pleasant acidity
Palate: Beautiful length on the palate,
Recommendation: Perfect with fish and vegetables

General information about our Bag-in-Boxes:

Hose, jug, amphora

It was a long way from glass, a luxury good – as in ancient times – 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 filled into jugs, amphorae or leather drinking skins. Only the techniques of glass blowing and glass pressing made it possible to produce bottles in large numbers.

But 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 footprint is not impressive even with consistent recycling.

Good wine in new wineskins

A Bag-in-Box packaging (literally translated "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 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 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 packaged in this way. In Germany, so far mainly popular with discounters for wines from Southern Europe and for wine exports from renowned German wineries, 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 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, because of the principle with the bag and tap, no air gets to the contents even after opening, 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.

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 Bag-in-Box.