Yes, it comes in a can.
Proper natural wine from European growers, in aluminium instead of glass. Cold, no cork, no ceremony, and about 79% less CO₂ to get it here.
- GrapeTrebbiano · Grillo · Montepulciano
- GrowerDjuce
- PlaceStockholm, from European growers · Sweden / Italy
It is not the cheap option. It is a different container.
A can reads as a downgrade. Festival wine. The thing you buy at a petrol station at eleven at night.
This is not that. The wine inside is made by European growers, organically farmed, chosen with sommeliers, and it would cost the same in a bottle. Nothing about the liquid changed — only what it travels in.
Order one without explaining yourself. If it helps: we drink these ourselves, on the hot evenings, standing up.
A Swedish idea, filled by Italian growers.
Djuce started in Stockholm in 2022 — four people who thought the problem with good wine was not the wine but the glass. They do not own vineyards. They buy from small European producers and put the results in cans.
The numbers are the point. A standard glass wine bottle carries roughly 660 grams of CO₂ per litre of wine just in packaging. Their cans come out around 141 grams. That is about 79% less, and it is almost entirely about weight and shipping.
Aluminium is also far easier to recycle than glass, and most aluminium ever mined is still in circulation somewhere.
We pour three: a Crispy White from Trebbiano, a Juicy Amber from Grillo, Catarratto and Zibibbo, and a Chilled Red from Montepulciano. All from Italy.
For one glass, or for a table that wants three different things.
A can is one large glass. That solves the problem nobody says out loud: you want wine, but not a whole bottle, and the by-the-glass list is short.
It also solves the opposite problem. Three people, three different pizzas, three different preferences, and nobody has to compromise on one bottle.
The Chilled Red is the surprise — Montepulciano, served properly cold. On a thirty-degree Larnaca evening it makes more sense than any room-temperature red on the shelf.
The least ceremonial thing next to the most.
Two metres away there is a bottle from a man who moved from Belgium to a live volcano, and a Cypriot white from vines at 1,400 metres.
And then there is a can with a cartoon dog on it. Both belong. A pizzeria that stops at a hundred pizzas a day has no business being precious about anything, including glass.
Come and open one.
Get a can, get a slice, stay standing if you like. Nobody is going to hand you a decanter. We stop at a hundred pizzas a day — the earlier you come, the better your chances.
The things people actually ask.
Q.Is canned wine lower quality than bottled wine?
No. The container does not determine the quality of the wine. Djuce cans are filled with organically farmed wine from small European growers, selected with sommeliers. Aluminium also blocks light completely, which glass does not.
Q.How much CO2 does canned wine save?
According to Djuce, packaging emissions fall by around 79% compared with glass: a standard glass wine bottle accounts for roughly 660 grams of CO2 per litre of wine, while their cans account for about 141 grams. Aluminium is also more efficient to recycle than glass.
Q.What is Djuce?
Djuce is a canned wine company founded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2022. It does not own vineyards; it works with small European producers making organic and natural wine and packages the results in aluminium cans.
Q.Where can I drink wine by the glass in Larnaca?
Filomena Pizzeria Napoletana, at 1 Aristotelous in Larnaca, Cyprus, pours wine by the glass and also serves single-serve cans of natural wine from Djuce, alongside Neapolitan pizza. It is open Tuesday to Sunday, 6pm to 10pm.