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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zoe Wood

Glass dismissed: wine goes green with paper bottle drive

Someone holds When in Rome's paper wine bottles
The bottles, made by the sustainable packaging firm Frugalpac, are 94% recycled paper and have a carbon footprint about a sixth of a single-use glass bottle. Photograph: When in Rome

The paper wine bottle is one of the biggest ideas since the screw top but as pecorino in a brown paper eco-bottle arrives at Ocado, there’s one thing to remember, try not to get it wet.

The £11 white, from the sustainable wine brand When in Rome, goes on sale this week, and is the first wine in a paper bottle to be sold in a mainstream UK supermarket. Even if the bottle does become damp, all is not lost, says Rob Malin, the company’s founder, because the wine is safe in a recyclable plastic pouch inside.

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