Sep 10, 2008 8:16 pm US/Pacific
N. Bay Firm Packages Wine In Eco-Friendly Tubes
HEALDSBURG (CBS 5) ―
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Grapes growing in Wine Country.
First, wine came in a bottle, then the less popular box. Now a Healdsburg company is packaging their wine in an environmentally-friendly tube.
On a Healdsburg assembly line, they package Four Wine, a red meant to be green. The wine is packaged in cardboard tubes. A pallet full of tube wine is 20 percent lighter than glass bottles, which means more wine can be transported using less gas.
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