The story is simple this month: We are bringing you fab wine in a box that reduces the carbon footprint of your wine by 84 percent but doesn’t compromise on taste or quality. It took us a while to get here! (And even longer for the folks boxing the darn wine itself!) We think this wine will challenge your notion of wine in a box.

Since we launched last year, we’ve been thinking of ways to bring you wine in lighter-weight packaging, because tackling packaging is the biggest opportunity to reduce the overall carbon footprint of a wine. If you were at our Earth Day launch event in April 2023, you saw wines in boxes and cans, and we were pumped to pour them! But when we started digging into the availability, economics, value, and drinkability of boxed wine to bring you monthly as part of the club, there just wasn’t a lot of selection out there.

Enter Tablas Creek, a super delish wine producer out in Paso Robles, California that has started to box its wines when it makes sense (aka wines that we’ll drink soon that don’t need to age). Tablas Creek was already doing so many great things for the planet—including farming with minimal outside inputs, using solar power, and using the lightweight glass for all their bottles. But they challenged themselves to do more, and people have responded really positively!

This is the 2023 Patelin de Tablas Blanc, and it’s actually 4 bottles’ worth of wine! The wine is a white blend of varieties originally hailing from (or near) the Rhône with a great balance of flavors and textures: Grenache Blanc, Viognier, Roussanne, Marsanne, Vermentino, and Bourboulenc. Plus, we have bought all the inventory in the DMV, so you can’t get it anywhere else around here!

If you only want one glass, you’re in luck, too—just pop it in your fridge, draw yourself a pour, and let it hang out in your fridge for the next time you fancy a glass. It’ll still taste good in a few weeks’ time. When you’re done, recycle the box and dispose of the plastic separately. (Hey, not a perfect solution, but still way better than glass.)

Can you let us know what you think? Shoot me a note or message me on Instagram at @getgoodwine, and we’ll be following up to get your take soon!

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