What other packaging material besides from bottles for wines?!
What other packaging material besides from bottles for wines?
for example, bottles, tin cans, pls specify
Answers:
Cask wine. It's wine in a silver bag inside a cardboard box. Most people in Australia refer to it colloquially as "goon". It's generally very cheap and not very nice. Moslty comes as about 2-5 litres. There is one significant problem with it, because of the surface area of the bladder they have to estimate what quantity of sulphur dioxide is required to keep the wine microbiologically free of pathogens, and over time the bag leaks so when you first buy the wine it has very high sulphur dioxide and over time it becomes less and less. They also have a limited shelf life because of this (generally 6 months).
Wine in a box, comes with a spigot, sits perfectly on the shelf in the fridge, great for parties, hold a lot!
Oak and other wooden barrels or kegs (mainly for aging though). In olden times: clay amphorae, and if I am not mistaken some Italian and Spanish wine is still offered in fired earth-ware ‘bottles’. More recently I have seen Australian wine in cans. It was actually quite delectable and a good solution for our 4x4 outing where bottles would have suffered a bit… then I have seen Californian wine in plastic bottles. Plus of course ‘boxed wine’…