Swedish Vodka - No. 1 - Bag-in-Box 3 L

NO.1 SWEDISH VODKA
A high-quality vodka made from the finest wheat harvested in Sweden. Our vodka is distilled three times to remove all impurities. It is made with water from Lake Vänern, a historic glacial lake known for its purity.

Taste:
Pure and smooth taste with notes of lemon, herbs, and almonds.

Serving suggestion:
Excellent as a pure drink on ice and as a mixed drink. Try it on ice with lemon soda and garnish with a lemon slice.

Bag-in-Box 3L • Alc.: 37.5% vol.

Made in Sweden

General information about our Bag-in-Boxes:

Hose, Jug, Amphora

It was a long way from glass as a luxury good – as in antiquity – to today's mass product, soda-lime glass. This type of glass is used for manufacturing bottles, packaging, drinking glasses, and mirror or window glass (flat glass).
In earlier times, glass manufacturing 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 enabled the mass production of bottles.

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 harder to re-seal after opening, and their environmental footprint is not exhilarating 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 corrugated cardboard packaging ("box") that protects the bag from mechanical damage and light. The liquid is dispensed from the bag via a tap. This reduces the contents of the bag 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 by an Australian winemaker in 1965, and since then it has become established primarily in Anglo-Saxon countries, Scandinavia, and the wine country of France.

In New Zealand, Australia, or 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 so far been popular mainly among discounters with wines from Southern Europe and for wine exports from renowned German wineries, and 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. The production, use, filling, and recycling of the Bag-in-Box consumes 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, due to the principle with the bag and tap, no air gets to the contents even after opening, and thus the wine remains enjoyable for at least 4 weeks after opening. There are also no negative effects on the taste due to the plastic of the bag – and wine in the Bag-in-Box cannot cork.

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. That is why we only offer ready-to-drink wines in the Bag-in-Box.