Wine on faucet applications nationwide are acknowledged for collectively saving greater than 32 million bottles from the landfill with using reusable metal kegs to help their wine on faucet applications.
Sonoma, CA, August 19, 2022 – Free Stream Wines has introduced 10 new winners on the 9th annual KEGGY Awards, recognizing the distinctive impacts these companions have made in lowering waste from the landfill and CO2 emissions. The KEGGY Awards had been created in 2014 to acknowledge vineyard companions for his or her dedication to sustainability by selecting reusable stainless-steel kegs – a really zero-waste bundle. Every Free Stream keg holds the equal of 26 bottles of wine and can get rid of roughly 1,560 bottles from the landfill over its lifetime.
As of as we speak, Free Stream Wines and their companions have saved greater than 32 million bottles, or 48 million kilos of waste, from the landfills. That is the primary yr Free Stream has additionally quantified the emissions influence of packaging wines into reusable metal kegs, in comparison with conventional glass bottles. Every reusable metal keg will save 2,862 lbs of CO2 emissions over its lifetime, in comparison with pouring the identical wine out of glass bottles. That is the equal emissions of driving a gas-powered car coast to coast.
“With sustainability initiatives at an all-time excessive and conventional packaging comprising the most important portion a wine’s carbon footprint, we’re pleased with the influence Free Stream and our companions are making to scale back the pointless waste and emissions related to pouring wines on-premise.” stated Clauss.
This yr’s Individuals’s Selection winner, Sixty Vines, is a restaurant idea imagined by FB Society that transports friends to wine nation and evokes journey and discovery with each sip. With six locations in its assortment and rising, every location proudly options as much as 60 premium wines on faucet and provides the closest “from the barrel” tasting expertise attainable exterior of the winery.
WINERY AWARD RECIPIENTS
To acknowledge the bottle waste saved from the landfill
Saved greater than 1,000,000 bottles (1,834,405 lbs CO2 emissions)
- Status Wine Imports
- Angeline and Martin Ray Vineyards & Vineyard
Saved greater than 500,000 bottles (917,179 lbs CO2 emissions)
- Trinchero Household Estates
- FreeFlowWines.com // @FreeFlowWines
- Treasury Wine Estates
- Banfi
Saved greater than 100,000 bottles (183,436 lbs CO2 emissions)
- Whisper Wines
- Kobrand Company
- Biagio Cru Wines & Spirits
- Daou Household Estates
- ATTIMO
PEOPLES CHOICE – RESTAURANT OPERATOR WINNER
To acknowledge an excellent venue that includes wines on faucet
About Free Stream Wines
Free Stream Wines, the pioneer of premium wine on faucet, goals to ship the freshest, finest tasting, most sustainable glass of wine. Free Stream’s keg leasing, filling, logistics and canning companies have allowed the wine and hospitality industries to maneuver to a greener, brisker, higher method to serve wine by the glass. Based in 2009, Free Stream has greater than 260 wine manufacturers in keg, from wineries all through the world. Premium wines in Free Stream kegs and cans can be found at eating places, resorts, retail shops, sports activities and leisure venues nationwide. Free Stream Wines at the moment has manufacturing amenities in Sonoma, California and Bayonne, New Jersey.
