Broadland Wineries to Launch First UK Light-Weighted Bottle for Sparkling Wine

The new light-weighted 75cl bottles now weigh 400g, down from 480g and represent significant environmental benefits for the winery, its clients and consumers.

21/01/08 Broadland Wineries, the UK’s joint largest contract bottler, today announces the launch of the UK’s lightest ever bottle for sparkling wine. The new bottles will save an average of 54 tonnes of CO2 annually.

The new light-weighted 75cl bottles now weigh 400g, down from 480g and represent significant environmental benefits for the winery, its clients and consumers.

Commenting on the launch, Broadland’s CEO, Mark Lansley, said: “Broadlands has made significant progress on light-weighting bottles for sparkling wine – balancing environmental efficiency with technical and quality performance and consumer expectation. It is a significant technical challenge for our industry to reduce weights so significantly, and we are grateful to the hard work from our glass supplier A.E. Chapman.”

The new bottles will first be used on the Perry, with annual volumes at around one million bottles.