The Palatinate organic winery Galler fills its wine into 0.5 liter beer bottles. The reusable bottle with crown cap can be given to the normal deposit system.
(Photo: Messe Düsseldorf / tillmann)
Dusseldorf Wine in a beer bottle with a crown cap? The Galler winery from Kirchheim an der Weinstraße brings the organic white wine “2/4” onto the market in half-litre returnable bottles. The empty brown bottle is simply fed into the nationwide reusable cycle. There is a deposit of eight cents per bottle for this.
What at first glance may seem like a sacrilege for wine aesthetes is actually a sensible innovation for more sustainability. “1.1 billion wine bottles are thrown away in Germany after one use every year,” say winemakers Ansgar and Katja Galler. “A returnable bottle is much more environmentally friendly.”
Because more than 40 percent of a wine’s CO2 emissions are attributable to the glass bottle. If the bottle is used several times, as has long been the case with beer bottles, the climate is protected.
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