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Have You Got The WITS?

I have recently acquired several hundred photos of tube bottles to add to
Miniature Bottle Library. W.I.T. (Wine in Tube), is a contract bottler with a
factory in Bordeaux, France. As you can see they fill in three sizes, 5cl, 6cl
& 10cl. They used to also fill 4cl tubes so you may come across some of
these also.

I used to think that WIT
was the tube maker until
someone put me right at
the Midwest Show this
year. Because of this, most
of the existing WIT tubes
on MBL are listed with the distiller in their country of origin, rather than as
WIT, under France. It is probably less confusing this way so I will continue
with what I have already started. However, WIT have now started bottling
their own range of spirits, as well as a range of French wines, which they
sell through their own web site, http://www.witfrance.com/en/ as well as
through overseas agents. This includes http://drinkintube.co.nz/ - which,
confusingly, is hosted in
Japan!

Above are shown some of WIT’s own spirit brands.

A few ‘gems’ from the NZ site include:

The Cognacs seem horribly expensive, the Club Degustation set not too bad. The tower of 48 classy
French wines can be bought for NZ$537.63 (plus postage? – it was not clear). At $11.20 each this is not
too bad either but there is a problem, every bottle/set I looked at was shown as ‘out of stock.’

I’ll bring you some examples of their contract bottled spirits in miNiZ109 and by then they should all be on
Miniature Bottle Library.
David Smith

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