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What is French for Wine Box (not a case, but a vaccuum sealed bag)?
In Calais wine shops if you ask for a wine box you get a wooden case with bottles inside. In English supermarket a wine box is cardboard with something like this inside
and with its outer packaging
Shockingly, it looks like the French have adopted an English term Bag-in-Box
https://www.vin-subtil.com/content/34-bib-vin
Surely not.
I'm trying to Google what the French say for wine boxes.
French wine sellers call it too BIB and a suggested translation is outre à vin but I wouldn't ask for an outre à vin in a wine shop.
Either use the old cubi (for Cubitainer) which would always be understood or better, prefer fontaine à vin which clearly rules out plain bottles and isn't associated with low quality wine like cubi might be.
A reseller also suggests carton cubi, carton fontaine à vin, carton bouteille. The oqlf dictionary also has caisse outre and carton-outre.
As Jiliagre said, "wine box" could be translate in many ways : "fontaine à vin", "outre à vin", "cubi"...
If you would like to ask for a BIB in shop, I advice you to use the world "cubi" which is the most used world in French for BIB :)
