Each keg holds 2.25 cases of wine.
How cool is that?
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- After ten years on a junk bond trading desk, where are fortunes are made and lost in seconds, I pursued my interest in wine, a product where patience is a virtue. I’ve worked in wine retail, as a sommelier, and now for a wine importer and distributor. As a Master of Wine wannabe, I'm using this blog to record parts of my studies, tastings now and perhaps some essays as I get into the practice. Because studying for the Master of Wine exams is not the most important thing in the world (or so my non-wine friends tell me), I will continue to blog about my other happiness: duck confit. Drop me a line if you have any comments, questions, or just have a bottle of Champagne that needs drinking.
How do the kegs get returned from the end consumer to the importer to the producer to refill them? That's the real problem with starting a keg wine system from scratch.
ReplyDeleteI was just on the phone this morning with Italy and they have started using disposable recyclable containers for Prosecco keg business.
Well, that Riesling you see in the pic? That's Finger Lakes Riesling. From what I understand, there's a big ol' tank of it in Brooklyn, so the distributor will pick up the keg from you and it's refilled locally.
ReplyDeleteThere's some California wines available via keg too. I think those are refilled in California. But they use horses to transport it.
I read in the Suffolk Times over the weekend that one of the North Fork wineries (Raphael I think?) is in one of these kegs for an Islip Italian restaurant.