Bag-in-Box Inventor Thomas Angove Dies at 92

By: Anthony Gismondi

Thursday, April 1 2010

Our sympathy's to one of the real gentleman in the wine business John Angove upon hearing the news of his father's death.

Here is the report from Just Drinks ', Greg Sweetnam

31 March 2010

The man credited with inventing bag-in-box wine, South Australian grape grower Thomas Angove, has died aged 92.

It was Mr Angove's idea to put wine in a resealable plastic bag inside a cardboard box that changed wine packaging forever in the 1960s.

Managing director of Angove Wines, John Angove, who is Thomas's son, told media today he remembered his father with the prototype for the cask, or boxed wine, and admitted he thought at the time that no-one would buy it.

"He thought he was onto a good thing and history certainly indicates that he was," Mr Angove said of his father's innovation.

The family has a long tradition of producing quality wines for the domestic and export market.

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Anthony Gismondi

Anthony Gismondi is a Canadian wine journalist and one of North America's most influential voices in wine. For over 37 years, he has been the wine columnist for The Vancouver Sun. The twice-weekly column is distributed across Canada through the Postmedia Network to millions of readers. He is also the host of the BC Food & Wine Radio Show, which is broadcast in 25 markets across B.C. and available globally as a podcast on all the major platforms. He launched Gismondionwine.com in 1997, which now attracts more than one million monthly users from 114 countries. It remains a valuable resource, offering tasting notes, insightful wine stories, and videos for the trade and consumers. His extensive collection of videos featuring wine personalities is available on the Gismondi on Wine YouTube Channel.