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Wine through your letterbox: UK company now delivers plonk in thin glass-like plastic bottles

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13/01/2017

How often do you order something online only to miss the delivery and subsequently have to go and pick it up, pretty much defeating the whole point of having something delivered to your door?

It’s perhaps the worst when you’ve ordered a wine delivery - you’ve had a tough day and all you want to do is go home and find a bottle (or crate) of the good stuff waiting for you on your doormat. 

But of course, you were at work so you missed the postman or woman, leaving you wine-less and sad.

However one innovative British firm has sought to combat that struggle with the creation of wine delivered in a box that fits through a letterbox.

Whilst boxes of wine are traditionally associated with impoverished students trying to get the most bang for their buck, Garçon Wines’ new invention is set to revolutionise the wine scene.

Their creation is significantly classier too - rather than wine actually stored inside a box, the boxes hold specially-shaped bottles of vino.

The London-based company have created a flattened plastic bottle that holds the same 750ml as a regular glass bottle, but fits in a cuboid box.

Read more at source: Independent 

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