Green Wine: Bag-In-Box Has Smaller Carbon Footprint

Ecopreneurist:

Vineyards are perhaps one of the most entrepreneurial of ventures. Long the dream of many a corporate worker and the fulfillment of one by celebrities and those willing to spend lots of hours and lots of dollars to make it successful, wine is in the green news this week.

The recent announcement that Almaden and Inglenook wines will switch form 3-4 liter jugs to Bag-in-Box (BIB) packaging was a big one.

The company bills itself as "the world's most cost and carbon efficient vintner" for its use of BIB packaging, which it claims has less than half the carbon footprint of bottled wine in terms of energy needed for glass production and transportation.

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Comments

[ProgressiveBum]

There's an additional benefit to wine in a box: As you drain the wine out of the bladder no air enters the bladder. Air in a half-used bottle degrades the remaining wine while boxed wine remains consistent to the last drop.
At this time, regrettably, only cheapo wines come boxed, which re-enforces the prejudice that boxed wines are crap. However, I have served boxed Mountain Chablis by the glass at barbeques and got positive remarks, so here's to hoping that more of the industry sees the light and sells every day wines in boxes, and starts offering boxed specialty varieties.

[robin50]

I wish soft drink makers would go to BIB packaging. I admit I'm a pepsi addict. I do buy it in the 2 liter bottles rather than smaller bottles. And I do recycle the plastic bottles. But if soft drinks also came in BIB it would certainly cut down on the plastic that comes in and out of my house.

[1099]

If you're drinking your wine out of a box you are drinking crap.