Boxed Wine Put in Garbage Cart Did You Know? More Economical and Eco-Friendly The manufacturing process for boxed wine demands fewer resources. Boxed wine weighs less than bottles full of wine, so shipping has a substantially smaller carbon footprint. Also, the cardboard and oxygen-proof inner bladder that make up boxed wine take less energy to produce than glass, according to boxed winemakers like Jackson-Triggs. House Wine? Probably From a Box Restaurants prefer boxed wine for a number of reasons: not only is it easier to store, but there are more glasses of wine in a box than a bottle. Boxed wine giant Franzia reported that in 2007, more than 88 million glasses of its wine were served in American restaurants.