Le Sweet Filou - Bag-in-Box - Sweet Red Wine 3 L.

Le Sweet Filou Rouge is an elegant red wine from France made from a variety of different grape types.

Aroma and Taste:
Le Sweet Filou Rouge presents itself in a ruby red color. On the nose, this Le Filou red wine offers all sorts of blackcurrants, black cherries, damson plums, plums, and blueberries. On the palate, it is wonderfully fruity with fine cherry aromas, oriental spices, cinnamon, and black tea. The finish of this red wine from the Sud-Ouest wine region ultimately impresses with a beautiful lingering taste.

Winemaking:
After the harvest, the grapes are transported to the press house as quickly as possible. Here they are selected and gently crushed. Fermentation then takes place in stainless steel tanks at controlled temperatures. Fermentation is followed by maturation for several months on the fine lees before the wine is finally bottled.

Serving suggestion:
A great accompaniment to vegetable couscous with beef meatballs, pan-fried calf's liver with apples, onions and balsamic vinegar sauce, or braised chicken in red wine.

General information about our Bag-in-Boxes:

Hose, Jug, Amphora
It was a long way from the luxury good of glass – as in antiquity – 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 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 enabled the production of 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 footprint is not intoxicating even with consistent recycling.

Good Wine in New Skins
A Bag-in-Box packaging (literally "bag-in-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. 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 first used as wine packaging in 1965 by an Australian winemaker. Since then, it has become established primarily in Anglo-Saxon countries, Scandinavia, and the wine-growing country of France.

In New Zealand, Australia, and 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 export by renowned German wineries, and the "Bag-in-Box" is increasingly gaining 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 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 drinkable 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 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.