You’ll no doubt have heard of food miles …the distance an item of food has travelled before it ends up on a supermarket shelf. Well wine can travel from afar too of course. If you consider that it’s typically stored in glass bottles that’s a lot of heavy packaging to be transporting around the globe.
In fairness to the supermarkets, they sometimes try and adopt better ways of transporting produce. Tesco Wine for example, ship wine by canal and now Waitrose Wine are importing large flexi-tankers of wine and bottling it here in the UK (more info).
You’d perhaps think that cardboard wine boxes would be more popular in eco-conscious homes? I’m not a fan myself …nothing beats a bottle.
