Wine Bottles - the greener issue

[ali_kat]

Am I the only one that has started to buy wine by the 'box'?

First we had plastic corks, then screw caps, in an attempt to make bottled wine 'greener'.

Most boxed wines tend to be seen as the 'cheap and nasty' stuff, but I have to say that both Siansburys and Tesco do a very nice Pino Grigio by the 3l box.

Arniston Bay have also started selling their wines like this, not in a box per se, but in a bag that holds 1.5l.

Reduces your carbon foot print, means no trips to the bottle bank AND is easier to store!

Will we see more 'named' wines being sold like this?

Does anyone care?

[Paulle]

Bag in box wine is a good way of keeping wine fresh,stops the air getting to it and all that stuff
The problem is instead of getting to the end of the bottle & saying "That's enough!" It's a case of "Just one more glass!"

[stackmonkey]

Greenest way is to re-use old wine bottles to make your own wine, with a regular call at the local meets to give me spare empties

[Biggelmo]

I`m no eco warrior or great wine drinker,but the mention of a bag in a box makes me think of a plastic bag in a box and surely a glass bottle that can be recycled is better than a plastic bag with all its recycling/degrading problems.
Its glass bottles for me every time..........only full of Harveys,Speckled Hen or similar.

[mechsympathy]

Biggelmo said:

but the mention of a bag in a box makes me think of a plastic bag in a box and surely a glass bottle that can be recycled is better than a plastic bag with all its recycling/degrading problems.

That and as someone has mentioned, it's far too easy to lose track of how much you've had

Nowt wrong with Chateau Cardboard per se though

[Vesuvius 996]

I bought a wine box (four bottles) at the weekend to last us a week. We finished it last night.

There's the problem, right there.

[ali_kat]

I think you all obviously have drinking problems then, or no willpower

[Marki]

Vesuvius 996 said:

I bought a wine box (four bottles) at the weekend to last us a week. We finished it last night.

There's the problem, right there.

As was said , now its "just one more glass" and you end up

[Don]

The problem with boxed wines is that there aren't very many good ones. The box itself makes wine-by-the-glass practical at home - but we've never found anything we actually wanted to drink sold that way.

"Chateau Car-de-bord".

I recycle all our glass bottles. Now that's a scary trip. Every fornight. Christ did we drink that much!

[Marki]

Don said:

I recycle all our glass bottles. Now that's a scary trip. Every fornight. Christ did we drink that much!

We do not have a choice over here about recycle or not ,, and yes it can abe a bit of a shock when you get around to doing it

[Piglet]

We make so much noise clanking glass bottles in the mornings that I'm sure our neighbours think we still have milk delivered in glass bottles

We buy boxes of wine in France, Calais Vin do a decent selection of boxed wine but we buy it because it's reasonably priced and is easy to carry and store - we're usually on our way back from a race circuit and getting bottles in the car with the camping kit is tricky!

I'm not sure whether boxes are greener though? What sort of manufacturing process is needed to make the bag? Presumably the bags aren't degradeable?

We also have the "just one more glass" problem!

[croxsons]

if you buying wine that was about £10 per 75cl, I don't about you, I would complain if it came in plastic, or in a bag!

Glass is the easiest to recycle, it is non dangerous to the environment if it does make it to landfill, and it looks oh so much better!