The world of canned alcoholic beverages is vast. Every time you step into a deli, it seems a new brand of hard seltzer has landed in the fridge and the ready-to-drink cocktails market has also exploded in the past few years. Canned wine is no different. “It seems everybody is putting wine in cans these days,” says sommelier Ian Bishop, the portfolio manager at Flavors of Italy, who laments that this uptick in quantity doesn’t translate to quality. “So why is it still difficult to find decent wine in a can?” As with many shopping challenges, knowing what brands to look for will help separate the drinkable from the disgusting. To find the best canned wines, we asked Bishop and seven more experts — including sommeliers, wine-shop owners, and other beverage connoisseurs — about the varieties they like to crack open. We broke down their 12 recommendations below into white wines, red wines, and rosé wines, leading each category with any canned wines we heard about the most.
Best canned rosé wines
Nomadica Sparkling Rose
Nomadica is a sommelier-curated canned-wine company that says it sources all of its wines from vineyards with responsible farming practices and works with winemakers who specialize in low-intervention (or natural) winemaking. But, as Lauren Friel, a co-founder of wine bar Rebel Rebel, points out, “None of that matters if the wine is no good.” She assures that it is, telling us Nomadica’s owners “are wine lovers first” and that its “natural California wines are complex expressions of West Coast terroir.” This sparkling rosé from the brand is a favorite of James Beard Award–winning sommelier Belinda Chang, the host of Virtual Bubbly Brunch, who says she keeps cans everywhere: “In my cooler for the boat, on ice in the bathtub for my apartment parties, and also in my fridge.” The price shown is for eight cans (which equate to 2.6 bottles of wine), but you can also get packs of 12, 24, and 36. If it’s love at first sip, the brand also offers monthly and quarterly subscriptions that will bring its cans straight to your door.
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