Packaging Enthusiasts

Typically, it takes anywhere from 6 months (up to 2 years) to convert grapes into wine. It takes about 3 to 5 business days to ship to its destination and 1 day to consume the wine. How long do you suppose it will take for the Styrofoam packaging that came with your wine bottle to decompose? You would never guess it, but it will take 900 years! Is drinking your wine worth it?

Traditionally, the wine industry has long been known for its old-fashioned approach to packaging. In the old days, wine associated with organic agriculture was left dusty on the shelf. But in this new era of eco-luxury, green is something to be proud of. Wineries are devising all kinds of ways to market their eco-practices. However, due to the continued rise of wine brands, wine packaging is changing, predominantly in North America. Wine makers are now taking another gander at how they package their products and to keep the Earth in mind while doing so. Now environmentally conscious, wine producers are enforcing earth-friendly packaging when shipping their products.

Wine packaging companies are now using packaging supplies such as envirofoam cushioning, which is a "green" substitute for regular Styrofoam. Envirofoam is 100% recyclable and as much reliable as the regular Styrofoam when it comes to shipment protection. Recently, a full clam-shell wine shipper tray has just been introduced to help vintners and purveyors of wine meet their green needs. The wine shipper trays, made from recycled newsprint, recycled corrugated paperboard and water, meet and exceed all packaging toxic limitation standards. Not only are they environmentally safe, but they also improve your end product by protecting you from price fluctuations, saving you as much as 75 percent in warehouse space and freight costs.

Yet green-minded wine drinkers still have reason to wonder what kind of eco-bang they are getting for their buck when faced with bottles on the shelf. While biodynamic and organic standards are enforced by a third-party such as Demeter USA and California Certified Organic Farmers, bottles are not always labeled as such, and there are different levels of certification.

A great wine packaging company should dramatically reduce storage space and offer versatility, recyclability and performance. Wine packaging companies understand the passion of wine makers' business in offering a variety of wine. Providing the right shipping products to fit their wine variety is what wine packaging companies live by.