Bag-in-box wine packaging
Bag-in-box (vino en bolsa dentro de caja)
- Date
- 1964-1967 · confidence high
- Place
- Renmark, South Australia, Australia
- Credited to
- Thomas Angove (with improvements by Penfolds)
- Field
- Life & health
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
A flexible plastic bag with a tap in a cardboard box, which protects wine from oxygen as it empties because it collapses. It was patented in 1965 and Penfolds added a valve in 1967.
Credit is shared between Thomas Angove (1965) and Penfolds' work (Charles Malpas's tap, 1967); there are earlier bag-in-box patents for other uses.
What it led to
- packaging for wine, juices and liquid foods
- mass-market inexpensive wine
- less weight and waste than bottles