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July

Find your wine packaging in an instant with our new portfolio finder

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To help you locate your wine packaging in an instant we have introduced a portfolio viewer on the Wine Schoppen website. This provides at a single glance all the card boxes and wood wine boxes we manufacture allowing you quick and easy access to our extensive range. Card Packaging Wood box packaging Wine bags Wine [...]

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  • Tags: wine gift boxes, wine packaging
7
July

Further decline in cork related faults in wine

Posted by admin | In: News, Packaging

The 2010 ‘world championship of wine’, the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, has added further weight to evidence of a dramatic decline in cork-related wine faults. Of almost 7000 bottles opened at the prestigious event only one per cent were identified as being affected by 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA). Staged in Palermo Sicily in April, the competition attracted [...]

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19
October

New wine box packaging

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Barrels & Bottles have just launched our latest range of wine gift cartons and booze bags ready for the festive season. Now available in ranges for safe sending through the post or for personal handouts with new colours including gold, silver and a rich burgundy red colour with contrasting highlights.

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5
August

Wine Schoppen in Packaging News

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SCHOPPEN AROUND FOR A LOGISTICS SOLUTION Wine Schoppen, based in Sheepbridge, Chesterfield, produce a range of different products including wine, champagne, bottle packaging and gift boxes as well as personalised wine bottle labels and other wine accessories. The company trades under the name of Bottles and Barrels and their diverse customer base includes retailers, distributors, [...]

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10
February

RackPac – Innovation of the Year

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Having just received the magazine covering the Drinks Retailing Awards from Off License News we thought we should share what the judges had to say about out entry. “Somebody’s got their thinking cap on at Barrels & Bottles, with the Chesterfield based independent winning the award for innovation for the second year running. Last year’s [...]

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2
December

Safe Sending of Christmas Gifts

Posted by admin | In: Gifts, Packaging

If you are looking to safely send bottles of wine and Champagne safely through the post this Christmas check out our DuLog wine postal system combined with additional protection of our Net Protect Sleeves… these add an additional layer of protection to your bottles and stretch to fit most bottle shapes.

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17
October

Wine RackPac is Launched

Posted by admin | In: News, Packaging

Our latest innovation to the world of wine is the RackPac – the instant wine rack complete with wine! Made from recycled card and printed with a wood grain effect this wine rack will happily sit on any counter or worktop presenting your wine for easy access. The RackPac is ready assembled (no fiddling with [...]

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3
September

RackPac – the new way to send wines

Posted by admin | In: Packaging

Forget polystyrene and plain brown card when sending wines through the post… you can now send 6 bottles of wine through the post complete with a wine rack! Costing the same as standard transit boxes but with the added benefit of an instant wine rack already assembled. Simply lift out of the outer box and [...]

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25
September

Sending wine through the post

Posted by admin | In: Packaging

Whilst our damage in transit figures were already impressively low we appreciate the disappointment and delay when a customer discovers their wine has been dropped by one of our carriers. We have dropped our breakage rate significantly with the introduction of “Net Protect“. This elegantly simple mesh expands to fit snugly over just about any [...]

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