We’re now packaging and selling our wines in 5 gallon stainless steel kegs for progressive restaurants in Colorado!
Packaging wine in stainless steel kegs for restaurant use is standard practice in Europe and is gaining ground in other states. We had some marvelous wine on tap in San Francisco in February and decided on the spot we needed to package our wines in kegs for the Colorado restaurant market.
Stainless steel kegs are the best means of packaging many wines for on-premise service because:
1) Wine stays fresher longer in kegs than in opened bottles. The 50th glass from the keg will be as fresh as the 1st, whether the keg was tapped 3 days or 3 weeks ago.
2) Kegs are far lighter than glass bottles-less than half the weight per serving-which means better fuel and labor economy in distribution.
3) The lifecycle energy requirements for filling, storing, delivering, and refilling wine in kegs is a fraction of the energy intensity of bottled wine.
4) Kegs are zero-waste, 100% reusable packaging.
