Wine... in a can!

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Ah, Australia. We love our booze, we do. We invented the wine cask, with it's plastic bladder, ubiquitous at picnics and BBQs all over.

So I suppose it was logical for someone to go one step further...

Wine in a can!

http://www.wineinacan.com/chardonnay.htm

What a scary idea.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Initially I thought you meant Wire in a can.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Are their wine pouches yet? Like Capri-Sun for drunkies?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Would you drink it? Would it taste funny, like metal? The makers suggest its a good idea in these times what with drink spiking and the like, and it certainly seems kinda handy.

I think I'll stick to my cask though.

xpost: Alex - Ive seen single-glass amounts of wine in puches before yeah. Theyre really aimed at portions for cooking though I think.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

What about wine juice boxes (with little bendy straws)?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hsfarms.com/wpe247.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

the horror

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is Pringe Albert?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

freddie pringe

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah you can't go out for a night on the town with a can gaffer-taped to your belly like you can with the bladder from a cask :)

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I want a wine can hat for my next ballgame. Online shopping here I come!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

This all just makes me think of the appropriate visual joke in The Jerk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Heheh... strapping wine bladders to yer belly? Damn woman, you make me look like a part time boozer ;) Ive never tried that one...

So should I hunt for some of this shit on the weekend and report back? Nick seems to think it'll be vile.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh it will be vile. . . BUT drinking wine at ballgame out of wine can hat has always been my dream.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

To be honest, i've not done it either but was mortified when I went out one night with a bunch of people I wasn't very familiar with and one of them tried this stunt.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

(I didn't know it was my dream until now mind you, but now it is my dream.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

So like Homer's beer hat? But with wine? I could hit that.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

EXACTLY! And with wine in it, it's this crazy mix of high and low culture. Although the wine is in a can, so maybe it's just pure low culture. Either way it's my dream.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:I6sHJ4cKfYMJ:www.beerdrinkinggames.com/foam%2520dome.jpg

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a beautiful dream, Alex.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Wine comes in a box, too.

I second this idea of wine in a can. Now you can say "get me a six pack" and still sound sofisticated.

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Dante-Cubed, you are too young to even THINK of drinking wine, let alone from a can (which is the height of sophistication, obviously).

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

@d@m, he's 43 and he lives with his mother. He's old enough to drink.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah well you're too old to...to...see how old you are.

Hey Alex. Guess what? Screw you.

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm 14.45 years old.

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

You scratch the first two digits and the period and I think you've got it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Is anyone at all surprised that a chardonnay is the first canned wine?

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not a period, it's a decimal point. God I think someone has had some wine already.

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I expected Merlot to be the first canned wine.

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the company does a range of reds and whites, I just picked the chardonnay link so it'd go to a cool picture.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

This on the other hand is a bit wrong:

http://www.wineinacan.com/sparkling_cabernet_shiraz.htm

Sparkling Cab Shiraz in a can! *goes a bit green*

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

OHMIFUCKINGGOD that is awesome! WHY IS THIS COMING SOON IN THE USA?!?!? I MUST DRINK THIS NOW!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Calm down ya stinkin bum!

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I have to admit I like the idea of champers in a can. Though I'd probably get HORRIBLY ARSEFACED on it.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The marketing of this is clearly classist and evil, etc.

― mouse, Friday, 16 April 2004 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Dante don't you have pretend teenage girls to pretend hit on?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't you have a life that has gone to hell in a handbasket so much that you spend your days drinking beer mixed with motor oil and looking at the Sears Catalog?

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Um no you are right I don't.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Dante man, appreciate the Aussie ingenuity of wine in a can or shoosh, ya silly little bastard.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The "sparkling" wine is carbonated "wine product"! I would so try that.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

mmm "wine" "product". I wonder what is in it (or missing) to warrant such a title? Its like "compound chocolate".

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

It's the carbonating, assuming Australian food labeling laws are similar to American ones -- the regular wines are "premium wine," the carbonated ones are "premium wine product," cause they're not naturally effervescent like real sparkling wines are. They just take wine and shoot it full of bubbles.

(Which is great!)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Fine. I can see when I'm not wanted.

I'll be here

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Friday, 16 April 2004 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Great indeed Tep! I like to spritz chardonnay as it is with soda water, so readymades in a can is nice. Theyre apparently $3.99 a can (AUD). WHich, if its a wineglass worth, is cheaper than a glass of wine in some bars (tho probably more rank).

I will hunt some down over the weekend and see how it is.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

!! That's ... not nearly as cheap as I expected, unless the exchange rate is much different from what I thought. That's like the price of a cheap (too cheap to be worthwhile) bottle of wine or (perfectly worth buying) bottle of cheap spumante. Weird.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Seems alcohol and general living expensives are much higher here in australia tep.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Really? Maybe cost of living is different, but heres some averages:

2L cask of decent wine (eg Yalumba) is about $12-$14
4L cask of HORRIBLE paint stripper ~ $10 I think?
bottle of decent non-cellaring wine $12-$30
glass of good chardonnay in a bar $5+ (Ive been charged up to $7 in some swanky places)
bottle of cheap paintstripper wine or "sparkling wine" - maybe $5-$8, though I cant think of the last time I saw a bottle THAT cheap (and wouldnt touch it).

Jim's probly more knowledgable on this than I. I just drink the cheap crap :D

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost that was to Tep.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah white wine starts at about $12 for nice drinkable stuff..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Our prices are about the same as that, I'd say -- well, I think decent wines start at more like $9, but it depends a lot on what kind of wine and where you're shopping, so a $3 difference maybe isn't worth noting. Cheap wines go cheaper, though, at least before taxes -- and cheap sparkling wines center around the $4 range, but those tend to be worlds better than the nonsparklers of equivalent price, for a bunch of reasons. (Fewer producers means bigger market shares for each, being the main one, plus the added sweetness forgives a lot in a non-excellent grape.)

I just figured, you know, wine in a can, this was going to be about the same price as beer or a bit more.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

prices might just be high because the demand (so far) is low?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

All I know is that while my brother was in America he bought a bar-size bottle of bacardi for US$11. Here I'd expect the same size bottle would cost at least $60.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Win in little mini beer sized wine bottles are a lot more than beer in US.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The cans in the pix look small, like V cans, I'm guessing $4 a can is reasonable because they'll pitch this at the nightclub market, who'll pay anything for a gimmick.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, especially since they seem to have invented their own kind of can for the purpose.

Well, unless Trayce's tongue ends up falling off or something from the evils of the canned wine, I promise to buy some of this when it shows up in the States, in the interest of supporting carbonated wine product.

All I know is that while my brother was in America he bought a bar-size bottle of bacardi for US$11. Here I'd expect the same size bottle would cost at least $60.

Good Lord -- yeah, nothing Bacardi would ever go for $60 here, unless they have some super-premium thing. $11 is typical, I'd guess (I don't drink rum anymore, but it sounds right).

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"bar sized bottle"? You mean like a 1L magnum or something ipso?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't know, he showed me a pic (he drank it all before he came home) and it was massive. Much bigger than any bottles i've seen here. Probably 1.5l or something.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

For $11! Woah!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, needless to say my 19 year old brother has the liver of a 68 year old.

He put aftershock into a soft drink bottle to drink on the plane back to Australia *rolls eyes* :)

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Once I went to the Gin Palace (v posh winebar place) with a cashed up friend who works for the UN. She bought us a bottle of Bollinger or somesuch pricey champers. I said "doesnt that cost at least $80?" in horror. She replied "in a bottle shop maybe yeah - you dont want to KNOW what this just cost me here".

I love having drinking pals with work credit cards =)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

This is gonna be my measure of money from now on. If I've got a lot of money, it's "drunk in Australia" money.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Just stay in Australia and drink your odd wine and listen to your Bee Gees music. Alex go back to that trashole misnamed a city called New York.

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Friday, 16 April 2004 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

are you off to subject more teenage girls to pornography?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 April 2004 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I can see when I'm not wanted.

We haven't abruptly started wanting you, DC.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 April 2004 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Aww DC you came back. Did you decide that being a 45-year old employed computer programmer was too much pain to bear and you needed a little pretending to be 14 fix to chear you up again?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 April 2004 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I love youse guys.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 April 2004 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

...I wonder what ever happened with this things. I can't say I have ever seen them anywhere - clubs, bottle shops, nothing. Funny thing is, I posted something akin to this thread on LJ at the time and I got an email from someone at the wine promo company asking me if I'd spruik them for freebies. I emailed back HELL YEAH.

I never heard another word :(

― Trayce, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

i wish i had a wing back beach chair

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmmm, wine.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

I have seen wine in a can in Tescos. I have not bought any.

I don't like the taste of any bouze out of a can - beer and cider taste different - definitely metallicky - and are better out of glass bottles so I imagine it'd be similar for wine.

― C J, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Wait .... that makes it sound like I spend my time swigging booze out of bottles. This is not so.

― C J, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

this product is failing because they should be trying to market it to high school kids. see: late 80s success of island coolers

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

oo..even better:

http://www.coldpole.com/home.htm

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

haha I thought this said Wine...in a car!. I was going to say classic.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Tesco wine in a can = horrible. I bought some once in an ill-advised cooking experiment when I was poor and didn't have enough money for a full bottle of real wine (even cheap stuff) and tasted some of it. It was, um, unpleasant.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

ten years pass...

Engineering Wines To Perfection Molecule By Molecule.
Goodbye Grapes; Hello Future.

AVA Winery are making laboratory copies of high end wines without any grapes. I'm down with this as long as it is dirt cheap.

― calzino, Monday, 7 August 2017 12:11 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6aHDsNZF4U

― chap, Monday, 7 August 2017 12:12 (eight years ago)

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