What is Box Wine?
“Box wine” sound like an impossibility – wine belongs in glass, not in cardboard, right? Actually, today’s box wines may have a cardboard exterior, but the wine is held in a leakproof and airtight plastic bag, normally made of Mylar or similar impermeable material. A spigot (like a little faucet) is built into the bag, and can extend through the exterior box to allow easy pouring. The wine box was an Aussie invention, having been originally patented in 1965 by Tom Angove of Angove’s, a winemaker from Renmark, South Australia. Advantages of Wine Boxes From the standpoint of wine flavor and freshness, wine boxes have several advantages over traditional glass wine bottles. First, there is no possibility of a wine becoming “corked”, i. e., spoiled by a deteriorated cork. While synthetic corks and screw caps allow bottles to be used without fear of flavor problems from natural corks, most wine bottles still use the natural kind. Second, wine boxes keep air away from the wine, even after par
