Merlot - El Emperador - Bag-in-Box 3L - Dry Red Wine from Chile

The Merlot - El Emperador comes from the Central Valley in Chile. The optimal conditions in Chile, with cold winters and warm summers, provide the ideal basis for good wines.

Aroma and Taste:
Merlot - El Emperador presents itself in the glass with an intense purple-red color. Spicy aroma of red berry jam. A harmonious, palatable wine with a lasting taste and supple tannins. Silky and very full-bodied.

Winemaking:
This elegant red wine from Chile is made from the Merlot grape variety. The grapes are harvested at full ripeness, destemmed and crushed - 10 days of temperature-controlled fermentation at approx. 30° C. Then gently pressed, clarified, and aged in tanks.

Serving suggestion:
A red wine that pairs excellently with various types of meat, roasts, cold cuts, and South American specialties.

General information about our Bag-in-Boxes:

Hose, Jug, Amphora
It was a long journey from glass as a luxury good – 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 the past, glass production was very expensive and unreliable. So wine, oil, beer, and other liquids were bottled in jugs, amphoras, 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 footprint is not great 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 packaging made of corrugated cardboard ("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 in 1965 by an Australian winemaker. Since then, it has become widely adopted, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, Scandinavia, and the wine 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 been primarily popular with discounters for wines from Southern Europe and for the wine export of 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 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 from the plastic of the bag – and wine in a 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 Bag-in-Box.