cask wine
Noun

cask wine

  1. (Australia, NZ) Wine that is sealed in a plastic bladder and packaged in a cardboard box.
    • 2003, Nicholas Faith, Australia's Liquid Gold, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=R4EX8LGBrXcC&pg=PT65&dq=%22cask+wine%22|%22cask+wines%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Zf8fT8T1IYGdiAe6xYTpDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22cask%20wine%22|%22cask%20wines%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page],
      At the end of the 1970s, a production line for cask wines was introduced.
    • 2009, Ralph Horne, Karli Verghese, Tim Grant, Life Cycle Assessment: Principles, Practice, and Prospects, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=12o_EjzLtTgC&pg=PA37&dq=%22cask+wine%22|%22cask+wines%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gPofT5meLIjBiQeSuuH5DQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22cask%20wine%22|%22cask%20wines%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 37],
      In this context, bottled wine is a premium product and not generally drunk in the same way or for the same reasons as cask wine.
  2. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see cask, wine
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