Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) a flagon of cheap wine.

1982		Sydney Morning Herald 13 Nov. 30: Tim Stanford started off drinking with ‘the goon.’ It’s a flagon of moselle or riesling [GAW4].
1993		Aus. Word Map 🌐 goon. cheap cask wine: We'd better get some goon for the girls [...] ‘Widely used in WA, also a ‘gooner’ or ‘goonbag’ is the silver bag the goon comes in’.
1993		Aus. Word Map 🌐 goonbag. Wine that comes in a cask: I had no money for decent wine last week so I bought a goonbag. Compare boxie, goonbox, goonsack. Also, goonie bag.
2005		Littlest Zobo 27 Sept. 🌐 Goon! Goon is what Aussies call really cheap wine boxes.
2006		Wikipedia 🌐 A box wine (also known as [...] goonbag, gooner, goonsack, bag of goon, or Chateau Cardboard).
2006		stebo taeblog 3 Jan. [blog] We [...] finished an Abo’s handbag of red Goon (it’s a wine ‘product’ which means the over or under ripe grapes enhanced with sugar).
2007		Skive Mag. Qly Mar. 12: Some youths were drinking from a big bag of goon, and another group of drunk young men were singing a Village People song out of tune.
2012		‘First Dog on the Moon’ in crikey,com.au 2 July 🌐 The drinking is worse though, it is mainly about goon. Everyone drinks sacks and sacks of goon.
2013		E. Shaw Thrill Seekers 73: We drank the goon straight in tumblers, in mugs with ice, blended into smoothies with apple and even banana.
2013		D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] Empty bottles of goon wine and Brandavino lay on their sides along the fence line.
2014		www.news.com.au 2 July 🌐 Loves her Holdens, Collingwood football team and exposing her breasts. Enjoys drinking a goon sack of wine hung from a clothesline.
2019		C. Hammer Silver [ebook] Drunk too much grog, that much was a given. Goon bags and shoplifted Bundy.
2019		C. Hammer Silver [ebook] He’s a little drunk [...] on goon juice.
2021		P. Papathanasiou Stoning 160: [C]lutching grog containers, bottles and cans and cardboard boxes of goon.