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"Welcome to wine Wednesday, a new series where, each week, we will employ our all-time favorite alliteration/hashtag #winewednesday to tell you about some of the more interesting bottles that come across our desks. So enjoy, and pour yourself a glass in honor of wine Wednesday!   We wrote about wine in a can over a year ago, when we first heard about the newly blossoming trend. Now Union Wines, one of the vineyards pioneering the novel concept, is offering its canned wines online and at select retailers nationwide for $6 each. Union Wine Co.&amp;#039;s owner and winemaker Ryan Harms first came up with the idea when going on outdoorsy trips to the mountains with friends. They always wished that they had a lighter, easier way to bring wine along and the demand for a different kind of bottling led Harms to aluminum. Plus, there&amp;#039;s the fact that drinking out of a can definitely makes the sometimes-intimidating beverage seem a little more relaxed. &amp;quot;Drinking wine doesn&amp;#039;t have to come with all of the pretension that it often does. We know a lot of people are turned off by that. Enjoying wine with friends ought to be fun, not make you feel inferior. These cans are just one more way for us to emphasize our philosophy on that,&amp;quot; explained Harms in a press release. We got a chance to try Union Wines&amp;#039; two canned varieties: Underwood Pinto Noir and Underwood Pinto Gris. Ultimately, we found drinking wine out of a can to be a fun and different experience. If we were at a fancy restaurant would we want to pop open a can of wine? Probably not. But, we were pretty giddy about the idea of bringing the cans (each one is two servings) to an outdoor cookout, picnic, or the like. Plus, we have big plans to make wine can chicken, an absolutely inspired idea from creator Ryan Harms. The best part about Underwood canned wines is that the company already makes wines that we like, so while we were concerned about canned wines in general being a gimmick, we knew that Union would put quality first. That being said, the cans do taste a little different than your average bottle. Canned wines are young and aren&amp;#039;t meant to age once in the aluminum, so they are a little lighter and fresher than your average glass. We found both the pinto noir and pinot gris to be approachable and easy to drink amongst a group of people with diverse tastes in alcohol. So what&amp;#039;s the overall verdict? We would bring a can of Underwood to a picnic any day! Would you drink wine from a can? Follow Zoe on Twitter. Find more great food content on Delish:   Search for the perfect recipe from our homepage Find out the latest food news Get a recipe book to save your favorite dishes Sign up for our free newsletters Check us out on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter   RELATED: 18 Boozy Ice Cream Recipes That You&amp;#039;ll be Drunk in Love With Recipes to Make You Rethink Tuna 15 Rockin&amp;#039; Raspberry Desserts "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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