Wine Filling Station

By John Farrier in Food & Drink, Living on Sep 15, 2010 at 10:13 am

Buying wine in bottles and boxes is so old-fashioned. In select supermarkets in France, customers can now fill up containers with gas station-style pumps:

Bring your own resealable bottles, Poland Spring containers, jerrycans, whatever. Or you can get one at the store. Select your grade (red, white, or rosé). Pump. Print receipt.

Astrid Terzian introduced this concept that hearkens back to a bygone era when wine would arrive in Paris shops in tonneaux and consumers would bring their own flagons to fill. But today, Terzian says, she started this scheme in fall 2008 to fill a niche, tapping into two key themes, environmental awareness and the economy.

Link via Geekosystem | Photo: Dr. Vino


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  1. Chuck
    Sep 15th, 2010 at 12:18 pm

    While living in Europe 2002-2008, my wife and I vacationed in Greece as often as we could afford to, and in most of the small supermarkets in several towns, we found similar rigs for dispensing red or white wine, usually locally-produced and often quite green, but cheap and tasty.

  2. dr.psilo
    Sep 15th, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    Yea, take that Pennsylvania!

  3. Sleestak
    Sep 15th, 2010 at 1:14 pm

    Oh, no. If that ever comes to where I work I hope we put a lock on it or a pay before use system like gas pumps. If they don’t then the bums will be standing in line to chug the stuff right from the hose.

  4. Dobalina
    Sep 15th, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    We have this in Montreal, too. At the Marché Central. It’s great! I wish they had it in supermarkets, too.

  5. Yep
    Sep 15th, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    Not pictured, the vending machine that sells new livers.

  6. emiiiiiiil
    Sep 15th, 2010 at 8:58 pm

    Homer and barney can have a hose each! neat.

  7. lulu
    Sep 15th, 2010 at 10:12 pm

    Wine sellers have been offering this type of fill-er-up service in wine-growing areas for a while now in France.

  8. Juice
    Sep 16th, 2010 at 5:30 am

    Environmental? What harm do glass bottles do to the environment?

  9. Archibum
    Sep 16th, 2010 at 8:29 am

    They do have these for water. It’s more popularly understood as the sink :)

  10. Evilbeagle
    Sep 18th, 2010 at 6:10 am

    LOL, Archibum!!!

    I really would love to have one of these at my local grocery store.

  11. goldenmom
    Jan 21st, 2011 at 6:15 pm

    Another one of those,”why didn’t I think of that” moments.. ARGH!


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