Prices for bidon containers. A robinet is to facilitate pouring which can be quite the art from a 5 litre container into a glass…If you only have a tiny fridge the best is to transfer the wine into empty bottles. Buy the glass bottle tops that are now popular here to re-seal your wine; they will be at the counter of any cooperative: vincole
Provence on a Budget
I know that from my experience in Canada and Britain, If I were to buy wine in a box, I would feel an acute sense of shame. That is not the case in France (well, at least in the countryside in Provence…) Not only have we bought lots of boxed wine here, we’ve bought lots of bidon wine.
Bidon wine (as we call it), or vin en vrac, is the wine that you buy from your local wine cooperative or even some vineyards where you fill up either a 5 litre or 10-litre plastic jug with what is essentially a gas pump. Yes. You thought a bag-in-box was bad? Ha!
Take your pick! See the bidon sizes on top of the vats
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