Delta is offering wine in a can and is reducing single use plastic in a series of changes to its onboard offering. The airlines is adding ‘artisan-made amenity kits, recycled bedding, reusable and biodegradable service ware and premium canned wine’.
Delta says the new products will collectively reduce onboard single-use plastic consumption by approximately 4.9 million pounds per year –the weight of 1,500 standard-sized cars – as well as “significantly increasing Delta’s support of minority- and women-run businesses”.
Among the changes are two new aluminium-canned wines from Imagery Estate Winery, a Sonoma winery led by award-winning winemaker Jamie Benziger. In 2019, Jamie was named Best Winemaker at the International Women’s Wine Competition and named to Wine Enthusiast’s 40 Under 40 list.
Delta will offer Imagery’s Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay onboard starting with select domestic flights in January, expanding to all U.S. domestic flights later this year. The wine’s aluminium packaging reduces annual plastic use by up to 250,000 pounds. Imagery’s wines are also sustainably grown, as certified by the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance.