A 4 litre cask of Australian red wine.

A box wine (or wine cask^[1]) is a wine packaged in a bag, usually made of aluminium PET film or other plastics, and protected by a box, usually made of standard corrugated cardboard. The bag is sealed by a simple plastic tap, which is revealed by tearing away a small perforated panel on the box, and used to dispense the wine. The most common sizes are 1.5, 3, 4 and 5 litre. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the beverage. ... A glass of red wine This article is about the alcoholic beverage. ... Wash bag German military bread bag Bags are non-rigid, normally made of paper, cloth, thin plastic or some other flexible material. ... Biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate (boPET) polyester film is used for its high tensile strength, chemical and dimensional stability, transparency, gas and aroma barrier properties and electrical insulation. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... An empty corrugated box An elaborate wooden box Boxes are highly variable receptacles. ... Cardboard (called corrugated paper in the industry) is a heavy wood-based type of paper, notable for its stiffness and durability. ... Indoor Tap - commonly found in the bathroom/laundry and/or kitchen. ... A perforation is a hole made by puncturing a surface. ... The litre or liter (see spelling differences) is a unit of volume. ...

History

The wine cask was invented by Tom Angove of Angove's, a winemaker from Renmark, South Australia, and patented by the company on April 20, 1965. Renmark is a town in South Australias rural Riverland area. ... Capital Adelaide Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Marjorie Jackson-Nelson Premier Mike Rann (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 11  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $59,819 (5th)  - Product per capita  $38,838/person (7th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  1,558,200 (5th)  - Density  1. ... is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ...

Cask Wine is also known as "goon" in Australia, and the bag alone known as a "goon sack" or "goon bag", while in the United States a common street-slang appellation is "space bag" (most earlier versions had a silvery, foil-like appearance.) The practice, usually by students, of consuming cask wine at parties is known as "gooning". At these parties cask wine is often drunk within the context of a drinking game, called Goon of Fortune. In this game the cask is attached to a Hills Hoist clothesline, which is spun. The person who is standing underneath the spot where the bag stops drinks the wine. Drinking games are games which involve the drinking of beer or other alcoholic beverages. ... Goon of Fortune, also known as Wheel of Goon (derivative of the television game show Wheel of Fortune, is a drinking game that originated in Australia. ... the top of a typical clothesline found in suburban Australia A rotary or Hills Hoist type of clothes line in use The Hills Hoist rotary clothes line was invented by Lance Hill, and is a common sight in Australian and New Zealand backyards. ...

The wine cask is now facing a new competitor with Tetra Pak introducing an environmentally friendly Prisma Pak, similar to that used for fruit juices. The Prisma Pak was introduced into Canada in 2006 with the launch of French Rabbit in one litre containers. There are a number of new launches of wine products in Prisma Pak in Canada prior to end 2006. It has just been launched into Australia as B-Pak through the Cheviot Bridge wine company under the Long Flat brand. Tetrapak logo Tetra Pak is a multinational food packaging company of Swedish origin. ...

Box Wineo

A well known drinker in Australia known as Box Wineo was one of the first to popularize the consumption of "goon" with the general public. He is known for his ability to consume large amounts via the use of a funnel or "Beer Bong" if you will, he is the pride of Australian drinking culture and will stay in the hearts of men and goon boxes alike.

Brands

Common brands of bag-in-box wines include:

• Fish Eye
• Hardy
• Franzia
• Almaden
• Cross Country
• Vella
• Black Box
• Killer Juice
• Target Wine Cube
• Wine Block
• Delicato
• Golden Gate
• Corbett Canyon
• Coolabah
• Sunnyvale
• Stanley
• Stonehaven

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Advantages

While cask wine is often of a cheaper variety, the packaging method itself is arguably superior to other methods. The chief advantage to bag-in-a-box packaging for wine is that it prevents oxidation of the wine as it is dispensed. Whereas wine in a bottle is oxidized by the volume of air in the bottle which has displaced the wine already poured, wine in a bag is never touched by air and thus never subject to oxidation until it is put in a glass. Thus, bag in a box packaging is not inferior per se, but is simply preferred by producers of more economical wines such as Franzia because it is inexpensive. The most fundamental reactions in chemistry are the redox processes. ... Composite body, painted, and glazed bottle. ... Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and colors as shown in this sphere from the Verrerie of Brehat in Brittany. ... Franzia is a brand of wine produced by The Wine Group, known for its 5-liter wine in a box. It is the number one table wine in the United States. ...

Box wine is not subject to cork taint or spoilage due to not drinking the wine quickly enough after opening. A bag of wine, once removed from the box, will float on water. This property allows quick cooling of a white wine by immersing it in an ice bath. 2,4,6-trichloroanisole Cork taint is a broad term referring to a set of undesirable smells or tastes found in a bottle of wine, especially spoilage that can only be detected after bottling, aging and opening. ...

Other advantages of boxing wine include greater efficiency of storage and transport of rectangular boxes, and elimination of the risk of breakage incurred by transporting wine in bottles.

Cask wine is typically cheaper than bottled varieties; often around AU$10 (GBP£4, US$8) for 4L in Australia and can be found to be around $8 on special at many bottleshops, and on rare instances has been seen to be sold for $6.

Disadvantages

The bag is not hermetically sealed and as a result has an unopened shelf life that is shorter than that of bottled wine. Most casks will have a best-before date stamped. ^[2] The term hermetically sealed is used to describe something that has an airtight seal. ...

As a result, it is not intended for cellaring regardless of quality and should be drunk within the prescribed period. A Wine cellar is a storage room for wine in bottles or barrels, or more rarely in carboys, amphoras or plastic containers. ...

Many people consider a glass bottle and the uncorking to be part of the ritual of wine drinking.

Manufacturers of 'higher class' bottle wines often complain about the cheapness of 'cask' wines, arguing that they provide a cheap means for alcoholics to become inebriated. In particular, the lower level of alcohol excise levied on cask wine in Australia (compared to beer and bottled wine) has been criticised as encouraging binge drinking.^[3]

References

1. ^ Wine cask. Powerhouse Museum. Retrieved on 2007-03-05.
2. ^ Boxed Wine. Black Box Wines. Retrieved on 2007-05-16.
3. ^ "Drinking problem is lack of will on overall measures", Sydney Morning Herald, 2007-06-30. Retrieved on 2007-08-04. 

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See also

• Bag-In-Box
• Fighting varietal
• Jug wine

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