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The first wines in 0.75-litre returnable bottles are now available in Germany. It is a wine from the Piwi variety Sauvitage and comes from the cooperative Heuchelberg Weingärtner. For the time being, it is only available at Gefako Group beverage retailers in the state of Baden-Württemberg, but is soon to go on sale nationwide. In the coming weeks, wines from the Heilbronn Cooperative Winery, the Hohenlohe Winery, the Lembergerland Winery Rosswag as well as the Markelsheim Weingärtner will follow, and in a few months, the Lauffener Weingärtner ** and the Cleebronn-Güglingen Weingärtner.
These winegrowers' cooperatives have joined forces to form the Wein-Mehrweg e.G. cooperative. Together with three other partner companies, they bottle the wines from a total of 5,200 ha of vineyards. Wein-Mehrweg has developed the new, robust 0.75-litre bottle that can be reused up to 50 times. The bottles are cleaned at the Möglingen dishwashing centre. The deposit is 25 cents
Wein-Mehrweg e.G. emphasises that it is open to further members. According to the German Wine Institute (DWI), the bottle accounts for about 45 percent of the CO2 footprint in wine production.
(al / Source: Meininger)