Ok boys and girls, we all AGREED that wines with wax tops are annoying at best (just joking there some pro-waxers). The we all AGREED that we liked heavy bottles (just joking there were many anti-heavy bottles). SO…can we all agree that we DON’T like getting a bottle wrapped in paper!!! I just find it really annoying. You get your shipment and you can’t even see what the bottles look like,but you feel guilty taking the tissue paper off because someone put it on for a “premium look”. Can we agree this is a worthless practice! Who started it? Join me as a anti wrap a bottle in paper person???
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For people who are buying singletons, or off the shelf at retail, we might not even be realizing some stock clerk is having to remove all that.
What about the wire cages around Rioja?
You must hate Christmas:
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Saran Wrap instead?
NOOOOOOOOOO!
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I only wonder how much these things contribute to the total cost. I don’t mind it and some of it is fun, but also don’t need it. In the end I want the bottles, the wine, the label, and for them to arrive safely.
Tissue
Wooden boxes
Random stationary that has nothing to do with allocations.
Until you NEED that paper in the coming apocalypse.
Then you’ll be sorry.
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Double duty, protect the label and kill TCA. 
I kind of dig the ol wooden box (and I can find other uses for it), but the paper obscures the bottle!
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I thought the tissue on 1988 Mouton half bottles was a nice touch, possibly suitable for framing if you go for that sort of thing.
In this picture taken just before Christmas, it served as swaddling for the baby in a Harry and David “manger”.
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I asked a winery about it not long ago, and their response was that it protected the labels during shipment. All my faux guilt about pulling it off went away in 1.2 milliseconds.
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Towards the bottom of my annoyance list
Asia-perfect.
I’ve heard this also, and that it protects against UV exposure. First thing I do when receiving a bottle wrapped in tissue is rip it off, unless its already packed in a wooden case which I’m going to leave it in or its Pott wine. Pott uses a beautiful purple paper and puts identification stickers on the outside, so I know which bottle it is.
I feel it’s more for presentation than anything else. Interesting thought about protecting the label although I do have bottles that have had labels torn due to lack of space on wine rack.
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Get Agent Cooper on the case!
If you dont care about the paper then just take it off and throw it out. Why the need to feel guilty about removing the “premium” look?
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The paper wrappers don’t do anything for me, but in the universe of wasteful packaging materials, it ranks very, very low.