Available in 1 bottle, 2 bottle and 3 bottle designs the new range of boxes are festive, bright, fun and above all super-strong quality and beautifully finished – they are designed to do their job of presenting and delivering your wines to their best.

A selection of the new 2 bottle Christmas designs are shown beneath with a lot more available to order directly online

View the full range of wine gift boxes for Christmas on our website or visit www.wineschoppen.co.uk to view all our packaging options in card, wood and gift bags in all designs, styles and sizes to suit all your needs.

p331960 : Gold
p331920 : Black
p331900 : Burgundy

All colours are available ex-stock for immediate delivery and can be view online at Wine Gift Boxes

Wine Schoppen are offering 40% discount of their Festival wine bags and Celebration bottle bags until 6th September.

The Celebration bags feature a quality satin-like finish with organza ribbon handles and gift tags. Available in 1 bottle and 2 bottles sizes there is also an over-size bottle bag is available which will accommodate a bottle of Champagne in gift box. The festival range of bags feature a cord handle with gift tags attached.

Card Packaging
Wood box packaging
Wine bags
Wine postal boxes

Staged in Palermo Sicily in April, the competition attracted wine samples from more than 50 countries and as in previous years event organisers conducted an analysis of wine faults. Of the thousands of wines tasted the panel of about 270 international judges rejected 120 samples. From this batch 68 were identified as being affected by TCA, commonly referred to as cork taint.

Read full story on www.corkfacts.com

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.

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, restaurants and corporate clients.

Wine Schoppen has a range of customers with different delivery requirements. Some customers have fully automated loading bays while others require hand delivery direct to their door. The company also experiences seasonal peaks between October and December in the run up to Christmas.

In order to meet their customer’s needs, Internet Sales Manager, John Higgins, wanted to use a local distribution company that would be able to provide detailed and accurate information about the time of their deliveries as well as being flexible to their changing supply chain needs throughout the year. They selected the Palletways transport provider for the Chesterfield area, Hastings Freight. As a Palletways member, Hastings Freight, is part of Europe’s largest and fastest growing pallet network for the express distribution of small consignments of palletised freight

Hastings Freight collect goods from Wine Schoppen’s site in Sheepbridge and transports them to either the Palletways hub facility in Lichfield, West Midlands or London, depending on their final destination. The goods are then sorted according to their final delivery points. From here, the consignments are distributed to Wine Schoppen’s customers by those Palletways members who cover these areas.

Through barcode technology and web-based track and trace, Wine Schoppen is able to monitor all consignments throughout the whole distribution process. Proof of delivery is also available on-line the day following delivery.

Internet Sales Manager, John Higgins, comments: “With such a diverse customer base and a need to deliver to differing delivery points we are able to provide detailed information about delivery times which is important when maintaining good customer relations. We generally send two to three pallets via the network each week for most of the year but this increases between October and December to two to three a day. Hastings Freight is able to react quickly to our changing demands and online booking has given us another element of flexibility as we can adapt more quickly to our customers’ needs.”

Palletways, which was set up in 1994, handles circa 21,000 pallets a day through eight hub facilities across Europe, including, Lichfield, London, Edinburgh, Nijmegen, Paris , Bologna , Naples and Acala de Henares, near Madrid.

Palletways members are local independent transport companies with local knowledge and expertise. Palletways provide a range of express delivery services including next day, economy and timed delivery options. The Palletways network model enables the members to deliver small consignments of palletised goods to market faster and more cost effectively than traditional haulage methods.

“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 win was for an on-site cookery school which has succeeded in bringing new customers to the store – but this year’s great idea could not have been more different.

It’s truism of product development that the simple ideas are usually the best, and so it is with the RackPac, an instant wine rack that’s supplied with wine ordered by mail order.

The RackPac combines the courier packaging for the wine with a fold-out wine rack that can be used to store he wine once it’s arrived in the home.

Not only does it enhance the presentation of wine sent through the post, it solves the problem of what to do with the redundant packaging mail-order customers are left to dispose of.

It’s a suitably green idea for the modern business world, but also has practical benefits for the wine merchant.

The boxes have a stackable design and are suitable for standard wine bottles or Champagne-shaped ones.

The RackPac is light in weight, ensure safe transit of wine, is fully brandable in any print colour, is made from recycled material and can be reused as a courier package as well as in its wine rack form.

And if all that wasn’t enough, the cost is the same for a standard six-bottle postal box. Barrels & Bottles is now working on a second-generation carry-home version, so watch this space.”

We couldn’t (and didn’t) say it better ourselves!

The RackPac is ready assembled (no fiddling with folding flap A to flap B instructions) and filled with wine… simply lift from the postal box and the rack is ready to be used, bottles included.

Our extensive crash testing led to the development of some ingenious bottle protectors (supplied as standard) to ensure the safe dispatch of the bottles through the post. Our latest design has safely passed through a carriers central distribution hub to the recipient and back again. An amazing feat of engineering.

The RackPac has been designed to accommodate bottles from Mosel to Champagne and still provide security to the bottles. Re-fill the RackPac with your own choice of wines over-and-over again. Recycling has never been so much fun!