Ask for cask | The Monthly:
"Earlier this week, a cabal of linen-suited winemakers converged on Nielsen Park in Vaucluse, Sydney’s leafy suburban peninsula. They were there to celebrate the 50th birthday of cask wine, and – in the process – to rehabilitate the image of the humble goon sack. The silver polyethylene bag, they argue, is not just the sacred object of libidinal teenagers.
Long prized for its convenience, long shelf life and low cost, it can also contain top-shelf vino.
In the grand pantheon of Australian inventions – the Hills hoist, medical penicillin, the tank – boxed wine occupies a particularly vaulted position. It is embedded in our cultural imagination, its acceptance widespread in a country that prided itself as a beer nation above all else.
The bag in a box was conceived by South Australian Tom Angove in 1965, and by the 1990s around 60% of all wine in Australia was consumed by the cask. "
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