Boxed Wine Glossary
Below are some key terms used by wine makers, drinkers and industry insiders. Now you can chat it up with the best of them or wow your friends at a party!
Aseptic: sterile, hygienic, sanitary.
Bag: the specially made plastic bag inside a Bag-In-Box.
Bag-In-Box: a container, usually cardboard but potentially any rigid material, containing a specially made plastic bag inside that has a tap affixed to it in order to dispense the contents. This system, created by Scholle Packaging over 40 years ago, is unique in that the bag deflates as the contents is dispensed, preventing air from entering the bag and affecting the contents.
Box: the outer container, usually corrugated cardboard, holding the plastic bag inside in Bag-In-Box packaging.
Boxed Wine: another name for a Bag-In-Box that holds wine inside.
BTG: an acronym abbreviation for “By-the-Glass”, a wine industry term for wines sold in restaurants by the glass.
Bulk Market: a wine industry term referring to the market for wine in bulk, either by the gallon as finished or unfinished, or packed in consumer packaging ready for sale but without label or branding of any sort.
Cap: a term used for a bag closure.
Carbon Footprint: the term used to denote the amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases produced by the manufacturing, shipping, usage, and/or disposal of goods and/or human activities.
Carton: also the outer container, usually corrugated cardboard, holding the plastic bag inside in Bag-In-Box packaging, but can refer to the box or container used for shipping Bag-In-Box.
Co-Packer: a winery that does packing – and possibly other services such as winemaking – for another wine company.
Corrugated Cardboard: technically known as corrugated fiberboard, it is a paper-based construction material consisting of a fluted corrugated sheet or glued to one or sandwiched between two flat linerboards.
DOT: Department of Transportation; DOT protocols involve the transportation of hazardous materials. Scholle Packaging manufactures bags for Bag-In-Box packaging for industries involved in such materials.
DuraShield®: Scholle Packaging’s exclusive, patented name for their design of film used inside wine Bag-In-Box.
Flute Profile: The thickness, width, and height of the fluting in corrugated cardboard. The fluting affects the thickness and strength of the resulting corrugated cardboard.
Filler: the machinery used for filling the internal bag in Bag-In-box packaging.
Fitment: a packaging term used for caps or taps.
Flexible Packaging: a category of consumer and industrial packaging that is flexible for containing liquids and other non-solid materials.
FlexTap®: Scholle Packaging’s exclusive, patented name for their design of the tap for wine Bag-In-Box.
Freshness Date: a printed date or code on packaging that specifies the expected shelf life of a product, often in the form of “best by/use by/consume by” date or “packaged on/packed on/bottled on” date.
Gauge: a measurement of the thickness of a material.
Greenhouse Gases: are those gaseous constituents of the atmosphere, both natural and anthropogenic, that absorb and pass visible and thermal radiation.
ISO Certification: ISO refers to the Organisation Internationale de Normalization, also known as the International Organization for Standardization, an international-standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. The ISO has several and various levels of regulations, standards, rules, codes, and international laws that comprise of a number of certifications that organizations and companies can institute in order to receive certification. Often certification applies to processes, quality, safety, and other areas.
Laminate: a material constructed by uniting two or more layers of material together.
Life Cycle: the term used to denote the entire existence of a product, from the manufacturing of it through to the disposal and eradication of it, including all of the components and services used over the course of its existence.
Master Shipper: the box or container, usually corrugated cardboard, used for shipping Bag-In-Box packages.
Off-Premise: a wine industry term for wine retailers and merchants; refers to the fact that the wine will be consumed off the premises where it is sold.
On-Premise: a wine industry term for restaurants and wine bars; refers to the fact that the wine is consumed on the premises where it is sold.
Oxidized: wine that has been exposed to air and allowed to absorb oxygen to the degree that it begins combining with chemical constituents in the wine and affecting the appearance and flavor excessively.
Pallet: in actuality the wooden frame upon which wine cases are stacked in layers, shrink-wrapped, and shipped in bulk, but the word is used generically to refer to specific number of cases as well as the stacked, shrink-wrapped unit.
Shelf Life: the length of time that a product’s packaging contains the unopened product without undue change under normal conditions.
Shipper: the box or container, usually corrugated cardboard, used for shipping multiple Bag-In-Box packages.
Shipping Carton: the box or container, usually corrugated cardboard, used for shipping multiple Bag-In-Box packages.
Tap: the plastic spigot that dispenses the wine.
U.N.-Certifiable Package: packaging that meets U.N. requirements for the safe and reliable transportation across international borders specific to the contents being transported.
Wine Cask: another name for a Bag-In-Box that holds wine inside.
