Wine in Unbreakable Travel Glasses are Great for Travel

by Nancy Bragg
Keep the stemware and the big, breakable wine bottles at home next time you hit the beach, campground, or open-air concert. 
     
Three former UC Irvine MBA students--Matt Zimmer, Jodi Wynn and Doug Allan--have come up with a pretty neat solution: stackable plastic wine glasses. No bottles, no stemware, no corkscrews (which are always forgotten at home, anyway).  
     
They've turned their idea into Newport Beach-based Stacked Wines. Each sleek package, which retails for about $15, comes with four foil-sealed glasses of wine, together equaling one wine bottle. 

Filled with California Merlot, (also available with Chardonnay) the stackable container system for wine-lovers on-the-go solves the dilema of packing the traditional glass bottle and stemware associated with sipping wine somewhere else besides your patio, dinner table, or neighbor's kitchen.
     
Safely sealed in a tight plastic casing, Stacked Wines slip nicely into a backpack, picnic basket, or tote bag. Each of the four plastic cups of wine snap apart from the stack, and are sealed individually with foil tops. I took along one of the Stacked Wine towers to a friend's birthday party at a local park; since it was a bring-your-own wine gig, I drank one of the stackables, my friend drank another, and I took the other two home for later, safely sealed, and without the fuss of re-corking a traditional wine bottle, the hassle of rounding up the corkscrew (which I usually forget anyway) and carefully packing up my glass stemware.
     
Stacked Wines are a great idea for summer travel, or just a little getaway at the local hiking path or dog park.  For more information on the Stacked Wines, as well as ordering information, visit: http://stackedwines.com/