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...