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Bag-in-box rehabilitated

Monday 3 January 2022
Gonzo bag in boxes

Australia invented bag-in-box wine, and went on to invent many a name for it, including 'cask wine'. It has now been reinvented...

‘We were selling 100 boxes an hour through our website at one point’, says South Australian winemaker Con-Greg Grigoriou. ‘Who’d have thought there’d be so much interest in cask wine these days?’

Grigoriou is telling me about the enthusiastic reception to his first bag-in-box wine, a 1.5-litre cask of Nero d’Avola released in 2020 under his bold, brash Delinquente Wine Co label.

‘I mean, I thought it might be a cool idea to do it’, he says. ‘But...

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