Con PoulosConsider the upsides. Cans are portable and easy to chill—both crucial considerations during the summer months.

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You can take them places where bottles are a pain in the neck, like the beach or an overnight camping trip. You can buy a single serving if that’s the sort of person you are (i.e., not me). They’re inexpensive.

And they’re environmentally friendly: light—hence a low carbon footprint—and with a substantially higher recycling rate than glass. They’re also getting popular, quickly. To give one example, first released its Underwood canned wines in 2014. In 2019, more than half their 515,000-case production was in cans. More anecdotally, every time I think I’m done tasting for this story, I get an email about another new launch. I’ve tasted dozens recently.

Sure, some were weird: clunky, metallic, you name it. But you’ll see that in any broad selection of bargain wines. The best were delightful—full of flavor, juicy and no different than what you’d find in one of those old-fashioned things they used to put wine inwhat were they called?