Sparking Red Wine in a Plastic Bottle or a Pouch

Little birdie told me that some environmentalists in west are creating a hue and cry over the use of glass bottles for wine and liquor packaging. They say these bottles are heavier than plastic bottles and more energy is consumed to transport heavier bottles. They advocate that glass bottles used in wine packaging are not environment friendly, rather they contibute to excesss usage of energy. They have gone on record to propose the use of plastic bottles and pouches for wine and liquor packaging. The wine packaging industry has already started replacing the wodden corks used in champagne and some wine bottles with normal caps.

Its hard to imagine red wine in a plastic bottle or our your premium scotch in a silver pouch. The environmentalists the adverse effects of plastic bottles and pouches on wine and liquor guzzlers in regions like Punjab. A group of friends will sit together in a local "Ahata" to cut a pouch rather than a bottle. People will reserve liquor pouches in the hood of their cars than the bottles, worse still what happens to our drawing rooms bars. Hard to imagine how will a Jack Daniel plastic bottle look like or will Johnnie Walk with the pouches.

There are other bigger and more grave issues concerning our environment and there are a trillion ways how we can save energy , but please spare the bottles, we Punjabi can't really live without our daily dose of "Daru ki batli".