Cooks&Co Cooking Wines Move to PET

Cooks&Co, the RH Amar-owned professional chef and caterer ingredients range announces that its white and red cooking wine products have moved to PET format from Bag-in-Box. The move follows industry-wide increases to the cost of wine from the beginning of 2012 and predictions for small grape harvests across Europe and California that are likely to lead to further price increases going forward.

Cooks&Co has also introduced two new size options, 2 litre and 5 litre, to its existing cooking wine range to deliver better value and respond to the needs of both the smaller and larger caterer.

“The transition to PET format and its associated economies have so far allowed us to offset increases to the cost of the wine,” explains Anne-Marie Cannon, Product Marketing Manager, Cooks&Co. She continues, “Cooks&Co cooking wines are very popular in the professional kitchen. With 4.2% alcohol content while exempt from VAT they offer a high quality, great value wine for the preparation of ever popular wine-based sauces and casseroles such as beef bourguignon and coq au vin.”

Formerly Cooks&Co cooking wines were dispensed from bag-in-box. The new PET format eliminates product wastage from drips when the tap is turned off. Meanwhile the transparent PET packaging allows for chefs to more easily measure quantities as well as easily being able to see how much product is left for reordering purposes.