Bag-in-Box – Vin de France – Sauvignon – BLANC – 3 L

Color: light yellow
Nose: Very expressive with floral, herbaceous, and woody notes developing into exotic fruit aromas.
Palate: Fresh, full-bodied, and balanced with an expressive finish and a slight return of exotic fruits.
Recommendation: Seafood, raw vegetables, aperitif

General information about our Bag-in-Boxes:

Hoses, Jugs, Amphorae

It was a long way from glass as a luxury good – as in antiquity – to today's mass-produced soda-lime glass. This type of glass is used for manufacturing 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 made it possible to produce bottles in large numbers.

However, 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 balance is not exactly intoxicating, even with consistent recycling.

Good Wine in New Skins

A Bag-in-Box package (literally "bag in box") consists of an inner plastic bag ("bag") for the liquid and an outer corrugated cardboard package ("box") that protects the bag from mechanical damage and light. The liquid is dispensed from the bag via a tap. This reduces the contents of the bag 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 in 1965 by an Australian winemaker. Since then, it has become widely adopted, especially 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, many fruit juices and dairy products are also packaged this way, in addition to wine. In Germany, it has so far been particularly popular with discounters offering 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 in 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 a glass bottle.

In addition, due to the principle with the bag and tap, no air gets into the contents even after opening, so the wine remains enjoyable for at least 4 weeks after opening. There are also no negative consequences for the taste due to the plastic of the bag – and wine in a Bag-in-Box cannot be corked.

But: Bag-in-Box is not suitable for long-term wine storage. The Bag-in-Box with wine should not be stored for longer than two years. Therefore, we exclusively offer ready-to-drink wines in Bag-in-Box.