More good news for those of us who cannot afford a well-stocked cellar full of French wines in glass bottles. The Box O Wine is becoming the rage among ecologically-minded vino tipplers. If you associate drinking wine from a box with a college dorm decorated with milk crates, think again. You can dress up a grown up gourmet ramen noodle dish with wine from a box and count yourself as a part of the green revolution, not the penniless and uncouth.
The Daily Green has a report on the ecological advantages of boxed wines.
“A standard wine bottle holds 750 milliliters of wine and generates about 5.2 pounds of carbon-dioxide emissions when it travels from a vineyard in California to a store in New York,” reports (Tyler) Colman, who blogs at DrVino.com. “A 3-liter box generates about half the emissions per 750 milliliters.” He concludes that switching to wine in a box “for the 97% of wines that are made to be consumed within a year” would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about two million tons, or the equivalent of removing 400,000 cars from the roads.
Now we just need someone to report on the ecological advantages of Milwaukee's Best and we'll be all set.
