Regular readers of our newsletter know that we are big fans of the “wine on tap” movement. What started off slowly in Northern California is now taking the nation by storm. Used primarily in restaurants and wine bars, these unique re-useable stainless steel wine kegs are replacing the traditional glass bottle and cork. When you drink wine from a keg, you pay for the wine, not the bottle, the label, the box and the whole mess of marketing that surrounds bottled wine. Wine on tap is all about the juice. And without all that packaging, the environmental impact of a single glass of wine is a lot less. Our own City of Chicago is set to see another major “wine on tap” facility open during the winter of 2012. City Winery in Chicago, will be the first spin off of the New York Winery in downtown SoHo. The owner, music producer Michael Dorf, as well as winemaker David Lecomte, felt that our great city was an obvious choice to begin their expansion with. The 21,000 square foot facility will feature 18 tap lines of wine, two wine bars, and two private dining rooms with glass walls, displaying the winery’s fermentation tanks and drums. Skolnik is proud to have been at the forefront of the “wine on tap” movement, with our stainless steel wine barrels in use by top producers around the country.
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