cask wine

cask wine

Wine that is packaged in a plastic bladder within a cardboard box. Primarily heard in Australia, New Zealand. Some people prefer the traditional glass bottles, but I think cask wines are the best value for the money!
See also: wine
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • wine
  • TV dinner
  • cardboard city
  • have (something) to go
  • out of necessity
  • shy bladder
  • at the end of (one's) fingertips
  • toe tag
  • out East
  • just the same
References in periodicals archive
Zbigniew Welnowski, aged 45, of Walsall Street, Canley, admitted stealing two boxes of cask wine to the value of pounds 7.40 from Tesco.
Inthecourts
To use an analogy from viticulture, these are the scientific equivalent of turning grapes into cask wine. In complete contrast, Roots of Conflict by Kirch and his collaborators shows us how working across disciplines can produce Bollinger champagne.
Roots of conflict. Soil, Agriculture and socio-political complexity in Ancient Hawai'i
He and co-author Dr Fiona Gunasekara found discounted cask wine could cost as little as 62c for a standard drink, discounted beer 64 c, discounted bottled wine 65c and spirits 78c.
Booze now cheaper than water in Kiwiland!
With a recent television appearance and a host of London gigs under their belts, The Coolabahs - named after an Australian cask wine - are turning their attention to promoting the single.
Another reason to be cheerful; Culture Music Simon Harper meets the next big thing from Coventry
The Wine Equalisation Tax benefited the producers of cask wine more than any other group.
Drunk on competition: National Competition Policy is undermining the ability of governments to responsibly regulate alcohol
* 3L cask wine consumers are largely premium table wine buyers who make the switch from 750ml bottles.
ACNielsen releases "innovative packaging" stats
WAK had made a loan of Euro 15 million to GfW in 1999 to purchase 44 million litres of table wine but following a collapse in wine prices in 2000/2001, which led to large quantities of cask wine being sold for distillation, GfW faced bankruptcy.
German state aid
Box or cask wines, once seen as having a low-scale profile, have been making strong gains.
The grape race: as table wine continues to surge among alcoholic beverages, other channels are pouring their fill
The major selling point of boxed wine (also called cask wines or bag-in-the-box wines) is that the wine is protected from the air in plastic pouches with a tap to prevent oxidation.
Thinking inside the boxed wine
While the entire table wine category is enjoying strong growth, dollar volume of 3-liter cask wines is growing nearly nine times faster than the overall category.
The next big thing
According to ACNeilsen, sales jumped 33% in the last year, yet many Chronicle readers have written in to complain that when they visit their local wine retailers, premium cask wines are nowhere to be found.
Too much value?
The cask wines come from specific vineyards and are aged in selected wood.
Sebastiani's Woodbridge connection