TUBES Opens New Plant in Napa

TUBES – Wines & Spirits By the Glass, a Dutch firm that specializes in bottling wines and spirits in single-serve glass and plastic tubes, said it will open a new facility in Napa, Calif., bringing the technology to the U.S. market.

The new facility will be able to bottle up to 20 million tubes a year using as patented system to preserve the quality of wines and spirits.  Products will be bottled in a full inert environment to avoid any influence of oxygen.  

Once bottled, wine is preserved between six and nine months in recycled plastic tubes and up to 24 months in glass tubes.  Spirits can be kept even longer.  

"In a highly competitive industry with unlimited choices for consumers, we saw an opportunity to scale the age-old tactic of trial, but with a modern twist” says Glen Ritzen, founder.  “We’re delighted to finally be able to serve the US divisions of all the great brands we’ve worked with.”