Enter ... cask wine?

A couple of weekends ago I had a drink for the first time in over a year (i.e., since I found out I was pregnant).

I was pretty stoked because, although I'm glad I didn't drink, and giving up alcohol seems a small thing in comparison to potentially harming your baby, there were many times during the year when I had hankered after a glass of wine.

But what I had was a beer. That's because, in my mumsy new life, by the time you've got baby to bed, you're knackered and know you won't be far behind, so one drink is going to be it - and it seemed a waste to open a whole bottle of wine. 

Which is what brought me to the cask wine section in the supermarket today. We thought maybe this would be a way to have the odd glass of wine here and there.

Cask wine doesn't really have a good name, does it? I can see why. The selection was pretty dire. (Side note: I guess maybe some graphic designers actually get a brief that says "Make it look cheap"?)  I bought the classiest-looking one but I still felt a bit like I should be wearing a dirty old raincoat and sloping off to a bus stop to drink it.

But it got me to thinking - apart from making your own, it's probably the greenest way to drink wine. Glass is pretty heavy to transport around. A 2L cask has the equivalent of three glass bottles of wine, with far less packaging. The cask I bought says it "has a much lower carbon footprint than the equivalent wine in glass". And then the one-way valve dispenser stops the wine from going off and being wasted after you've opened it.

If the wine inside is good it would be all good, right?

What do you reckon? Could cask wine ever be rehabilitated as an eco-friendly option or is that just a step too far?