Single use wine bottles? Really?

by | Dec 12, 2016 | General, When In Rome

Want to know a little secret about the UK wine industry? About a third of all wine consumed in the UK is bottled at a single £8.5 million facility just down the road from When in Rome’s HQ at Avonmouth, near Bristol. Yep, you read it right. 600 million bottles...

Our new baby box, La Mezza

by | Dec 2, 2016 | General, When In Rome

Yes, this is a really cringey photo, but I can’t think of a better way to tell you how much we love our new baby wine box. We call it ‘La Mezza’, which means ‘half’ in Italian. In actual fact, it’s less than half the size of our...
Reuse, refill, don’t recycle!

Reuse, refill, don’t recycle!

by | Nov 16, 2016 | General, When In Rome

As the world’s largest wine importer, the UK brings in over 1.2 billion single use wine bottles each year. Of which an astonishing 40% still go to landfill! The rest are recycled, but more energy is required to recycle glass than practically any other material....