[net.wanted] boxes of wine

tiberio@seismo.UUCP (Mike Tiberio) (05/30/84)

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Does anyone know the origin of those boxes of wine one sees now. When did
they arrive on the scene? Who invented them? Who holds the patent? I refering
to the cardboard boxes with the plastic bladders and little spigots.


thanks in advance...seismo!tiberio

cmgiuliani@watmath.UUCP (cmgiuliani) (05/31/84)

  I don't know, but I have seen advertisements for boxes of wine in
  the very respectable Spanish newsmag Cambio16  -- I think it was the
  November '83 issue.

                  Carlo @ the U of Waterloo

stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP (Don Stanwyck) (05/31/84)

We used boxes of wine (admittedly larger than the normal retail ones)
in a restaurant I worked in for a couple years.  I know of many other
restaurants where the house wine is a plastic-bag-in-cardboard-box 
packaged wine.

I am not sure that at the low end of the wine/price list, packaging makes
all that big a difference.  Jug wine is jug wine in a gallon bottle or
a gallon bag.
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hrs@houxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) (05/31/84)

Geyser Peak was marketing boxed wine as early as 1977, under
the Summit label. While the red ("burgundy") was generally ok,
I got two of the whites ("chablis") which were maderized.
(Before opening).
Franzia also had them at that time. They are a lot handier than jugs.

Herman Silbiger  houxb!hrs

(Shouldn't this be in net.wine?)

ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (05/31/84)

I don't know about wine, but the food service industry has been using
them for milk for years.  I also seem to remember buying photographic
chemicals from Kodak in a thing called a cubitainer ten years ago.

-Ron

kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker) (06/02/84)

Well, I don't know if this is what you want, but out here we have
something called "Wine in a Box" from Summit.  It is sold in
supermarkets, and everywhere else fine wine is sold (right...).
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Ken Shoemaker, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
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