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Ba, ba, bam. Is wine in cans better for the environment?
Thanks for asking. First there were screw top wines, then wine in boxes, and now the latest alternative is wine in cans.
Although it's still relatively niche, it's a fast growing market, making up around 10 % of overall wine sales in the US, according to the food, science, and human nutrition department at the University of Florida.
How is wine in cans better for the environment?
Glass bottles, according to a 2014 study by the Wine Institute, found that glass bottles accounted for 29 % of the carbon footprint of wine.
This, however, does not include the impact of transport or take into account the method used to create glass bottles in the first place, which is itself very energy intensive.
And although glass is recyclable, only 31 % of bottles compared to 50 % of aluminium cans are recycled in the US.
System Bollaget, a Swedish wine distributor carried out a study that shows that switching to three 250 millilitre aluminium cans, which amounts to the same as one traditional bottle of wine, cuts carbon emissions by 79%.
On top of that, aluminium is infinitely recyclable, with almost 75 % of all aluminium ever produced still being used today.
What are the other advantages of wining cans?
Cans are already widely used for other drinks and offer the same advantages.
They are light, easy to carry and open, and you don't need anything else like glassware or a corkscrew to enjoy them, making them perfect for the dance floor or a picnic.
Plus they often have stylish artwork, and are more in line with younger people who are increasingly careful about how much they drink and often don't want a full bottle.
Plus there's no chance of them being corked.
But what about the taste?
Until relatively recently, cans would not have been a suitable choice for wine as they would have been a detectable metallic taste.
But developments in packaging technology and the use of food -friendly linings inside cans prevents any contamination.
In fact, cans are beginning to be thought of as better for wine than glass bottles as they can prevent oxidisation and degradation of wine through sunlight exposure, allowing flavour profiles to remain unchanged for up to 18 months after canning.
Unlike many bottled wines, canned wine will most likely not touch any sort of oak barrel, simply because the wines are meant to be bright, fruity, refreshing, and consumed immediately.
says Raquel Royers, a Napa, California -based wine blogger at Watch Me Sip.
Some people are still hesitant about wine in cans, but things have changed a lot since the early days when canned wine was synonymous with low quality.
It had nothing to do actually with the can, it was just bad wine that was put into the can.
says Phillip Martinson co -founder of the Stockholm -based canned wine brand Juice in 2022 for the Guardian.
There you have it. Now you know why wine and cans is better for the environment.
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