Wine in kegs: emerging Italian trend

An emerging trend on the Italian restaurant, bar and hotel scene is wine kegs. The kegs are a popular choice in venues where large quantities of wine are sold by the glass. For high-volume venues, wine kegs are an efficient and economical way to serve wine by the glass while ensuring a quality product for customers. They also significantly reduce the cost of packaging and the amount of waste.

CoMac’s kegging, bottling and canning equipment is popular with the wine industry, and particularly with producers of wine kegs.

To date, CoMac has sold approximately 30 keg fillers or plants to the Italian wine industry. Two large wine manufacturers, Montelvini and Maccarivini, have chosen to use the CoMac range of machinery for filling wine kegs.

A CoMac keg filling line.

A fifth-generation wine producer, Montelvini claims to have the largest keg filling plant in Italy, producing 500,000 kegs every year. With an output of 180 kegs per hour, their line comprises 3 CoMac 4+2T keg washers/fillers, with external washers, turners, cappers, labellers, conveyors, buffer tanks and cleaning solution tanks.

Maccarivini also uses CoMac keg filling equipment. The company runs a complete keg line with four CoMac 4+2T keg washer/fillers and other external components. The line also has an output of 180 kegs per hour. The Maccarivini installation includes a combined dry area solution with a palletiser/depalletiser system.