Traditionally, direct to consumer wine shipments are packed in single-use corrugated cardboard shippers with molded paper pulp trays or expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation and single-use gel cooling packs. Despite the insulation and ice packs, these single use containers cannot always protect wine if travelling a long distance or through very hot or very cold areas, so environmentally burdensome expedited air freight is often used to guarantee
the wine stays in its target temperature zone. Download the case study.