![]() It’s hard to think of a canned wine more perfectly suited to enjoy at a cookout than this one. Enjoy these outside with food and friends during your Labor Day weekend festivities. With the help of friends, and in the name of research, I engaged in selfless consumption to find adult refreshers that are not only easier to transport, but also kinder to the environment and your body. ![]() If cocktails are your claim to fame, how many jars, bottles and garnishes can you pack and keep up with before becoming annoyed or annoying? Bottles are heavy, bulky and hazardous a challenge for wine lovers. Simplicity refers more to the ease of achieving an optimal drinking and dining experience for this weekend.įood can be transferred in resealable or disposable containers for convenience, however, adult beverages present a quagmire, aside from six-packs of beers. Those burgers might be USDA Prime beef smothered with imported blue cheese. Simplicity doesn't mean skimping on quality. While there are hosts who go gourmet regardless of the occasion, simplicity more often rules this holiday. ![]() Labor Day, commonly thought of as the farewell to summer, is the final officially sanctioned grilling and boating weekend of the season. If it’s love at first sip, the brand also offers monthly and quarterly subscriptions that will bring its cans straight to your door.Watch Video: Labor Day is meant for you to do nothing But, as Lauren Friel, 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. 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. 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. ![]() 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. “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. “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. 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. The world of canned alcoholic beverages is vast. ![]()
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