Sustainable wine and spirits bottle packaging for New Zealand brands
Your finest bottles deserve better protection
Whether you ship wine, gin, whisky or premium spirits, a broken bottle costs more than the product. There’s the replacement, the second freight journey and the customer experience you cannot fully undo.
Flexi-Hex combines paper honeycomb sleeves with purpose-designed bottle boxes to help NZ wineries and craft distilleries ship glass bottles with less plastic, less movement in transit and a far better unboxing experience.
BREAKAGE RATE
TO PACK PER BOTTLE
MORE COMPACT THAN BUBBLE WRAP
PLASTIC FREE & RECYCLABLE
THE PROBLEM WITH TRADITIONAL PACKAGING
Bubble wrap, foam and loose fill can undermine a premium bottle
For a winery or craft distillery, packaging has two jobs: protect the bottle through a courier network and arrive looking like it belongs with the product inside.
Bubble wrap and air pillows may be familiar, but they add single-use plastic and leave customers with a disposal problem. Loose paper fill and cardboard dividers can be useful in the right format, but they do not always hold a heavy glass bottle securely in place on their own.
Flexi-Hex is designed to wrap the bottle in protective honeycomb paper, then work with a purpose-built box to reduce movement. It gives premium drinks brands a more considered, plastic-free alternative for direct-to-customer shipping.
Built for premium gin and whisky bottles
Craft spirit bottles are rarely ordinary. They may be heavier than a standard wine bottle, wider through the shoulder, shaped for shelf impact or presented in a gift box. That makes fitted protection and the right outer carton essential.
Flexi-Hex honeycomb paper sleeves adapt around the bottle, while the right-sized box helps minimise movement during courier handling. The result is a plastic-free packing format that protects the bottle, respects the presentation you have worked hard to create and gives customers a cleaner way to recycle the packaging at home.
From single-bottle gin gifts to multi-bottle whisky releases, Woodhill Distribution can help you select a sleeve and carton configuration suited to your bottle dimensions and order format.
OUR RANGE
Recommended for Wine and Spirits
Flexi-Hex Mini is a robust cardboard sleeve made from an expandable honeycomb material that is ideal for protecting glass bottles, as well as other fragile homeware items such as jars, cups, knives and vases.
Designed for the safe transit of fragile products
Made from 100% recycled paper pulp
Plastic-free, recyclable, biodegradable and compostable
Quick and easy to integrate into packaging solutions
An aesthetic solution adding value to brand identity and improving the customer unpacking experience
Compact for cost effective shipping and storage
Boxes sold separately
*Please request a quote for bulk, pallet, remote-region, or mixed-cart orders
Best Seller
For wine, gin, whisky and other fragile bottles
For wine, gin, whisky and other fragile bottles
Flexi-Hex Mini Sleeves provide close-fitting honeycomb paper protection for standard wine bottles and many spirit bottle formats. They are well suited to DTC orders, gin gifts, whisky releases and cellar-door or distillery-store shipments.
Bottle shapes vary, particularly across craft spirits. Send us your bottle height and widest diameter and we’ll help confirm the right fit before you order.
Award-Winning
For one-, two- and three-bottle wine and spirit orders
The Flexi-Hex Pinch Top system combines an expandable paper sleeve with a self-sealing bottle box. Once packed, the box design helps limit movement in transit — a practical fit for wine deliveries, gin gifts, whisky releases and premium DTC shipments.
The Flexi-Hex Pinch Top packaging solution was designed primarily for e-commerce as a reliable way of delivering bottles through the post. Available in three sizes, it consists of two main components; the Flexi-Hex sleeve and a uniquely engineered, cardboard postal box.
Individual bottles are inserted into our honeycomb sleeve before being placed into a self-sealing cardboard box with an additional protective base insert. The pinch at the top of the box prevents further movement of the bottle within transit, therefore avoiding damage and breakages.
This is fuss-free packaging that securely delivers bottles directly to customers and is a superior alternative to plastic bubble or air-filled plastic. Its smart design elevates the unboxing experience.
Plastic-free, recyclable, biodegradable and compostable
Available in single, double and triple sizes for bottles up to a maximum height of 320mm
A smart design ideal for e-commerce that improves the consumer unpacking experience
Reduces breakage rates through innovative engineering
Compact to store and lightweight for economical shipping
Can be customised with company branding
Tear strip for easy opening
Note: We have older stock of the 2pk boxes available at a discounted price. Please be aware that the double sided-tape is faulty and boxes will need to be taped closed.
*Please request a quote for bulk, pallet, remote-region, or mixed-cart orders
A self-sealing box (including separate base insert) designed for the safe shipping of 6 bottles, each individually wrapped in Flexi-Hex.
Fits bottles of all shapes and sizes up to a maximum of 350mm in height
Made from high-quality paper
100% plastic-free, kerbside recyclable, home compostable and biodegradable
Self-sealing box with crash-lock base so no tape required
Tear strip for easy opening
Quick and easy to assemble
The base insert creates a compartment for each individual bottle to prevent movement and reduce breakage rates
Compact to store and lightweight for cost-effective shipping and storage
Can be customised with company branding
An aesthetic e-commerce solution which adds brand value and improves the customer unboxing experience
This solution also requires 6 Flexi-Hex Mini Sleeves
*Please request a quote for bulk, pallet, remote-region, or mixed-cart orders
Wine Clubs
Wine clubs, distillery clubs and larger DTC orders
Ship six individually protected bottles in a right-sized outer carton. A separate base insert creates compartments that help prevent bottles moving in transit — useful for mixed wine cases, gin bundles, whisky club releases and larger customer orders.
Built for every stage of your supply chain
USE CASES
Meet your NZ packaging obligations beautifully
SUSTAINABILITY & COMPLIANCE
Regulated Product Stewardship (RPS) under the Waste Minimisation Act means wine and spirits brands in New Zealand need to actively reduce plastic packaging across their supply chain. Flexi-Hex helps you meet these obligations while simultaneously improving your customer experience — packaging that's good for the planet and great for your brand.
✓ 100% Plastic Free
✓ ISTA 3A Certified
✓ Kerb Side Recyclable
✓ 100% Recycled Paper
✓ Home Compostable
✓ FSC Certified
Ready to ship your bottles without compromise?
Send us the height, widest diameter and a photo of your bottle — especially if it is a distinctive gin or whisky format. We’ll help you choose a sleeve and box configuration that protects the product, suits your packing operation and reflects your brand.