Color: garnet red
Nose: Dark fruits like blackcurrants and typical spice notes.
Palate: Fine tannins with liqueur-like notes and a delicate and lasting finish.
Recommendation: Pairs very well with red meats, such as beef, with salads and strong cheeses.

General information about our Bag-in-Boxes:

Hose, Jug, Amphora

It was a long journey 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 earlier times, glass production was very expensive and unreliable. So wine, oil, beer, and other liquids were filled into jugs, amphorae, or leather drinking bladders. Only the techniques of glassblowing 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 exhilarating even with consistent recycling.

Good wine in new bags

A Bag-in-Box packaging (literally translated as "bag in a box") consists of an inner bag ("Bag") made of plastic for the liquid and an outer packaging made of corrugated cardboard ("Box") which protects the bag from mechanical damage and light exposure. The liquid is dispensed from the bag via a tap. As this happens, 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 since then it has 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, many fruit juices and dairy products are also packaged this way, in addition to wine. In Germany, it has so far been popular mainly with discounters offering wines from Southern Europe and for wine exports from renowned German wineries, but 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 more advantageous 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.

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 wines ready to drink in a Bag-in-Box.