Garçon launches 10-bottle case to slash carbon emissions and costs

By Lisa Riley

Published: 27 February, 2019

Garçon Wines, inventor of the 750ml flattened wine bottle, has launched a 10- bottle case it claims will slash carbon emissions and costs.

The multiple case holds 10 full-sized flat wine bottles in a compact case which would otherwise carry approximately just four regular, round, glass bottles of the same 75cl volume.

The new case, in which eight flat bottles are packed vertically with two lying horizontally in the airspace around the bottlenecks, would “significantly” cut carbon emissions and logistics costs from the supply chain of wine, said Garçon.

Current wine transit cases used to transport six or 12 bottles of wine were “inefficient and ineffective resulting in unnecessarily costly logistics, excessive packaging, wasted resources and a grotesque carbon footprint”, said Garçon founder Santiago Navarro.

This, he added, was because the bottles being used were “unfit for purpose in a 21st century world of e-commerce, complex supply chains, a global world, and most importantly, climate change”.

Compared to an average case for six round, glass bottles – the standard secondary packaging used to transport wine, Garçon’s new case is approximately 55% spatially smaller.

This space saving per case means that a pallet loaded with 10 cases could carry 1,040 bottles of wine in comparison with a standard pallet with six round, glass bottles cases, which would carry just 456 bottles of wine, according to Garçon.

“Fitting 2.28 times more wine on a pallet translates to lower costs in packaging, warehouse handling & storage and transport,” said Navarro.

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