![]() ![]() Courtesy of Brick & Mortar.įour of the five wines, in 375-ml cans and bearing the California appellation, are bright and lively, super-clean and refreshing. To counter their high-end $50-range bottled sparkling wines, chardonnays, pinot noirs and cabernet sauvignons, they created a line of canned wines so solid that the couple landed a contract to supply wines to San Francisco’s Chase Center, home of the Golden State Warriors, when the arena reopens after its pandemic shutdown. Healdsburg’s Alexis and Matt Iaconis got into the tin game a few years ago. ![]() They may not be the perfect wines for all occasions, although they can be perfect wines for the right occasions. ![]() Here are six Sonoma producers of tasty canned wines, all of them perfect for your next hike, family pool party and single-serve sipping at home, kept cool by a koozy. These easy-access, single-serve wines are worth seeking out, particularly now as hiking, picnicking, trips to the coast and other physically distanced activities have become increasingly popular. Their goal: to put traditionally bottled wines in single-serve aluminum containers that appeal to outdoor enthusiasts, recycling and sustainability proponents and millennials seeking unusual wines.Ĭloser to home, several Sonoma wineries now put fine fermented grape juice - paired with winemaking expertise - in cans, obliterating the notion that tinned wines are made only from low-grade grapes and sold for cheap at prices that reflect the mediocre contents. Produced by Campovida Wines in Hopland, the viognier in its canned format came from Maker Wines in Marin County, a new company founded by two Stanford University business school grads. It wasn’t a fluke that the Maker 2019 Mendocino Viognier, packaged in a 250-milliliter can, won a gold medal at The Press Democrat’s North Coast Wine Challenge in July. ![]()
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