Think of it as a self-service milk machine, but with thousands of gallons of vino inside.  Astrid Terzian took a cue from history and has turned the idea of mass-market vending machine wine on its head.  Rather than have a machine that dispenses individual bottles of wine, she’s going big and shipping 500 and 1,000 liter containers of wine to grocery stores in France.  There, customers can bring their own bottles from home and buy bulk wine on the cheap!

Terzian got the idea when her first business idea, a winery and bed and breakfast, proved to be too expensive.  So she turned to French history.  In the old days, wine would arrive in shops in giant barrels and customers would bring their own flagons to fill.  This is a more modern version of this, selling wine for $2 a liter thanks to the ease of shipping, the lack of unnecessary packaging materials, and the extra expense of packing bottles at a winery.

It’s strangely traditional, yet also strangely modern.

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