You can soon order a bottle of wine that fits through your letterbox

Wine subscriptions are a brilliant idea, but if you – as most of us do – work during delivery hours, they won’t be much help when you get home at 7pm dying for a glass of Shiraz.

The postman will have come and gone, and left yet another ‘you weren’t in’ slip of paper by the door.

Whoever decided upon the dimensions of a letterbox was certainly a teetotaller – what can you really fit through them besides bills and (slender) books?

But thanks to a company called Garcon Wines, this will no longer be a problem, as the London-based service has created some “glass-like” plastic bottles that’ll squeeze through your letterbox.

So instead of having to run to the offy to get your fix, it’ll be ready and waiting for when you get back.

Delivered in bottles that look a little like olive oil containers, Garcon sources wines from around the world and puts them in specially-crafted boxes before they go through your letterbox.

And according to Metro, they don’t forfeit volume, either – the bottles can still hold the standard 750ml or around five glasses of wine.

The wine company is hoping to start a subscription service come February – prices will start at £10 a bottle, with discounts for multiple deliveries.

A word of warning, however – these wines won’t keep as well as your average bottle so you better get guzzling within six to 12 months of their arrival.

Which is what we were planning on doing anyway, obviously.

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