Thanks to GSI Outdoors new Soft Sided Wine Carafe, backcountry lovers of wine can now carry their favorite Pinots, Portos and Petits Rouges wherever their picnic or pack may take them. While the bottle has proven a wonderful solution for shipping and storing Wine for the past millenium, the heft and inherent fragility of the glass has relegated one's favorite wines to the table or a nearby picnic spot. This sad reality meant that sophisticated outdoor Oenophiles were forced to rely on the woefully limited selection of boxed wines or struggling with a centuries-old Bota Bag design and its rustic, shepherding aesthetic. In either case, spills and spoilage were inevitable.