Why Wine on Tap?

Dazzling Value

Delivering wine by the glass from our Silvertap wine casks allows the restaurateur to provide higher quality wine at a substantially lower cost.

  • Restauranteurs make better margins. Eliminating all packaging waste and spoilage provides increased margins and more profits to a restaurant.
  • Everyday wine drinkers are able to enjoy a better wine at a lower cost without being intimidated by snooty bottle service.

The Perfect Pour

Wine on tap means a perfect pour, every time, for any length of time.
  • 100% nitrogen gas pushes the wine out of the cask, preserving the wine remaining in the keg for months.
  • The wine never oxidizes and will never be corked or experience bottle variation or other flaws due to packaging.
  • Each Silvertap wine cask contains approximately 130 five-ounce glass pours. The 130th will be as fresh as the first.

    • Streamlined Service

    No cases to receive and inventory. No bottles to stock. No corks to pull. No wine lost to oxidation. No bottles to recycle. Your wine service just got a great deal more efficient, saving you labor costs and adding profit to your bottom line.
  • Faster bar service means shorter time to table.
  • Less waste (and we mean A LOT less waste–see chart to your right) means a cleaner, more efficient restaurant, reducing back-of-house labor costs.
  • Empty Silvertap wine casks are picked up by your distributor with every delivery of a full cask.
  • No bottles to recycle, no cased good storage needed–freeing up your wine closet for your bottle list.

    • It’s Easy Being Green

    Wine on tap: good for business, good for the planet.
  • Shipping wine in reusable wine casks means no bottles were manufactured and shipped from Mexico to the winery. No power was used to run the bottling line.
  • A full Silvertap cask weighs 45% less than equivalent bottled wine packaging. Less weight to ship, less big rigs on the highways.
  • Less glass factories depleting the planet's sand, manufacturing glass and spewing carbon.
  • No felled trees, no chemicals, no bleach to make and print labels. Cork tree forests intact, not stripped. No pulp wood necessary to manufacture cardboard boxes.

By the Numbers

Less Waste

You pour through three cases of your popular bottled wine per week. This represents:

3 cases = 36 bottles per week
52 weeks of service per year = 1,872 bottles
1,872 bottles = 5,616 lbs
Switch to wine on tap and eliminate over 2 1/2 TONS of trash per year.

Cost Savings

Average spoilage per bottle is 7% (unfinished or corked by-the-glass bottles).
7% waste on a bottle that costs $9.50 = $.67 per bottle.
If you go through 3 cases per week of a house wine, you’d save $24.12 per week or $1,254.24 per year.