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Self-heating coffee, canned wine.(Wolfgang Puck's latte coffees)(Neibaum-Coppola Winery's white wine )(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)

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| August 01, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Two new packaging ideas for coffee and wine offer solutions in search of a problem.

Coffee. Wolfgang Puck's latte coffees, $9 per four-pack of espresso, mocha, caramel, or French vanilla flavors, come in self-heating cans that you activate at the touch of a button. The manufacturer, OnTech, says the cans are great for outings such as camping.

Here's how it works: Water is released into a sealed core of quicklime, which produces heat. Six minutes later, we had 10 ounces of latte heated to a steamy 146[degrees]F. The can stays warm for an hour. Our taste testers found the drinks very sweet, with flavors of cooked milk, artificial sweetener, and hints of coffee.

But there's a catch: You must store the cans at room temperature. When we put two in a refrigerator to simulate the kind of cold day when you might covet a latte, it never got above a tepid 108[degrees].

And when we left a few in a car on a 70[degrees] day, the latte reached a scalding 190[degrees]. Another nit: a ...

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