![]() Jones now sells chardonnay, pinot noir, and grenache rosé in 500-milliliter silver cans, which make up nearly half his company’s production. I tripled production and we sold out our second run in 10 days.” “My first run of cans took off on us,” said the company’s owner Andrew Jones. The company first put its everyday wine, Fiction, in cans back in 2013. Field Recording, a winery in Paso Robles on California’s Central Coast, has certainly benefited from this uptick in interest. Craft beer’s adoption of cans has no doubt helped pave the way. It took a bit of time to win over drinkers but during the last five years canned wines have really taken off. Ball Manufacturing, which makes those ubiquitous glass canning jars, assisted Niebaum Coppola and now does a brisk business in manufacturing single-serve wine cans for a number of other wineries. The winery made the unorthodox decision after Francis Ford Coppola admired the soda packaging in Japanese vending machines and decided to replicate it. While canned wine may be the hot thing to drink this summer, this trend actually stretches back to 2004, when Niebaum Coppola put its Sofia Blanc de Blancs in cans. ![]() At the end of April, the company came out with a four-pack of Italian vino frizzante (bubbly) from Simpler Wines at the bargain price of $4. As a result, more wineries, both small and gigantic, are getting into this category.Įven Trader Joe’s has gotten on the bandwagon. From 2015 to 2016, according to Nielson, sales have more than doubled and last year alone consumers bought $14.5 million worth of the stuff. Tada is part of the growing number of drinkers who have made canned wine an unexpected best-seller. “The best part is you can take it to the movie theater,” said Tada, who adores Champagne but who is loathe to open a full bottle because it generally goes flat before she can finish it. Tada not only loves how it tastes but also the convenience of the diminutive pink can, which comes with a straw and fits unobtrusively in her purse. Last year, she discovered Sofia Blanc de Blancs, bubbly made by the Academy Award-winning filmmakers-turned-winemakers Francis Ford Coppola and his daughter, Sofia. Her secret? Tada’s libation of choice is canned wine. ![]() Click here to subscribe.In the past year, Hong Lieu Tada, a San Francisco stay-at-home mom, has found a slew of unexpected places to drink wine: She has snuck her favorite vino into hotel rooms and sipped it on the beach in Hawaii. This article was published in 7x7's October issue. Hottest wine: Scribe’s 2011 Sylvaner is an ode to the pre-Prohibition farmers up here in Sonoma. Sonoma hotspots to try: Campo Fina in Healdsburg, El Molino Central in Boyes Hot Springs, and Glen Ellen Star in Glen Ellen.īest undiscovered place: The El Verano Inn in Sonoma might change your life. than chicken and waffles and a giant coffee at Fremont Diner. Go-to for late-night eats: Our kitchen table: And by eating, we mean drinking.īeloved restaurant: After a night harvest, there’s nothing better at 8 a.m. Hype aside, the Marianis keep it cool, working in harmony with the land that hosted California’s first Riesling and Sylvaner-two varietals they are growing in earnest to keep up with mounting demand from cult followers. The bucolic tasting room is a Sonoma hot spot thanks to a hilltop picnic area, and the brothers’ Scribe Viticultural Society (SVS) dinners (featuring chefs from Fatted Calf or Chez Panisse) are regularly sold-out. Now with its palm-lined driveway leading to a historic hacienda (the brothers have plans for its restoration), this is a place where pretty young things work and play. Andrew Mariani (above, right) launched Scribe Winery in 2007 (brother Adam joined him soon after), and the two subsequently revived the storied plot of a 19th-century German winegrower that fell into disrepair after Prohibition (left to bootleggers, the land is rumored to have hosted both a brothel and a turkey farm). We were so impressed by the crop of talent and brains moving the needle this year-in fields as diverse as technology, music, education, sports, and arts-that we added 10 bright stars to our list.Ĭall them crazy, but the family nuts and dried fruits business didn’t appeal to these fourth-generation California farmers. As are the local luminaries in our annual Hot 20, er. ![]() It’s Indian summer in San Francisco, and temperatures are on the rise.
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