Wine Trends Millennials Have Kept The Wine World LIT AF With

Top 5 trends we as millennials have brought into the old world of wine to keep it on fleek

I sometimes feel like Millennials get a bad rap in life. From the odd lingo, to the creation of the selfie stick but when it comes to the wine world they deserve some credit. Millennials are generation Y&Z and it spans the years 1980 to 2010. According to www.timeinc.net , Millennials drank over 159.6 million cases of wine last year, they even raised the average drink per sitting from 2.5 to 3.1 glasses and they aren't even taking the cheap way, 17% of millennial's buy a bottle that costs over $20. There are so many other factors that they have helped in the wine industry with all these new trendy ways to bring the youngin's into the old world of wine. Here are the top five wine trends that you can stay the most 'lit' off of:

1. FROWINÉ TREATS:

these frozen wine treats the give you the summertime feels forever

WINE POPSICLES

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Fruta Pop 'Poptails' are alcohol infused Popsicles with a 5% ABV (alcohol by volume). The flavors are White Coconut Sangria, Coconut Rosé Sangria, Red Sangria, Mimosa, LUX pops with Veuve Clicquot, Sparkling Champagne Pomegranate. http://www.frutapop.com/

V FANCY WINE COCKTAILS

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Loopy Doopy Rooftop Bar located in the Conrad Hotel in NY, New York does a Prosecco or Rosécco that starts as your base for you wine cocktail and then you pick from five different homemade Popsicle's. The one that sounds the best to me is the Strawberry, Rose Water, and Gin popsicle.

FROSÉ

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A frozen drink with rosé, strawberries, lemon juice, and sugar. Basically, strawberry lemonade with rosé but it's lit AF

2. PACKAGING

Everyone loves a good package

WINE IN A CAN

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Underwood, Sophia, Babe Rosé even Trader Joe's is making canned wine. I'm quite thankful for canned wines because now I can drink something in a parking lot at a concert without worrying about breaking a bottle #pinkiesdown @unionwinecompany @coppolawine @webroughtwine @traderjoes

40 OZ WINE

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2016 Forty Ounce Wines comes in a Rosé or a Muscadet. The wine hails from the Loire Valley region in France. The creator of the company is Patrick Cappiello and he has stated this is a limited-edition wine. Only 1,200 cases were made this season so if you see it sis you better snatch that up. So enjoy and relive your college days or for some of us high school days in a classier way.

INSTAGRAM WORTHY WINE LABELS

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Some of the wine labels I have seen trending a lot lately have a gold foil, embossed labels, graffiti labels, and gorgeous art that are always filled with personal touches. 46% of Millennials pick their wine simply based on the way the label looks.

3. MUSIC FESTIVALS X WINE

Where all my festival people at?

BOTTLEROCK NAPA VALLEY

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BottleRock 2018, May 25th-27th. Started in 2015 in Napa, CA. Musicians, Celebrity Chefs and performance from winemakers are on their stages. There are wine cabanas where you can taste the wines from some notable wine makers like Cakebread Cellars, JaM Cellars, and Chandon.

UNCORKED WINE FESTIVALS

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Uncorked 2017 is a Wine, Food, and Music Festival that features over 200 wineries at each festival form CA to OR. It happens monthly in CA, AZ, IL, NY, MO the soonest one is September 16 in Kansas City at Union Station.

LA NUIT EN ROSÉ

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La Nuit En Rosé is a festival literally dedicated to Rosé. This festival was created by created by some famous rosé wino's Pierrick Bouquet and Derek van Bakergem whom are also behind Pinknic, New York City’s largest rosé-themed yearly picnic. This festival happens monthly in NY, CA, FL and started in 2014.

FOOD + WINE FESTIVAL DISNEYLAND + DISNEYWORLD

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Food + Wine Festival California Adventures at Disneyland & Epcot Disney World. California Adventures started in 2006 and take place in March ends in April. Disney World Food + Wine starts in August and ends in November and that started in 1995.

4. FOOD THAT GETS YOU DRUNK... KINDA SORTA

continue your buzz even if you trying to sober up

WINE JELLY

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Wine Jelly is the perfect additive to your charcuterie plate when you are hosting your ladies wine night or fancy dinner party. Flavors: Rosé, Cabernet Sauvignon, Moscato, Pinot Noir, Merlot, Pinot Grigio, and Chardonnay.

ROSE + CHAMPAGNE GUMMY BEARS

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Candy you can get tipsy with count me in, Sugarfina makes flavors that they come in are Champagne, Bubbly Bears, Sparkling Rosé, Rosé all Day.

WINE ICE CREAM

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The ultimate PMS ice cream come in flavors like Peach White Zinfandel, Chocolate Cabernet, Lemon Sparkling, Cherry Merlot, Strawberry Sparkling, Port, Red Raspberry Chardonnay, Shiraz, Riesling, and Spice

5. ON THE WEB

APPS

VIVINO, DELECTABLE, SNOOTH

Apps- We made finding wine easier with a quick picture and the click of an app, you can find out all the info on the wine you’re about to buy or just simply tell the magic app what you want and it finds it for you. Apps like Vivino, Delectable and Snooth are some notable apps: @vivino @delectable @snooth

WINE SUBSCRIPTIONS

WINC, WINE DOWN BOX, VINOBOX

We have made getting wine even easier because now it can just come straight to our doors with Winc, Wine Down Box or Vinebox @winc @winedownbox @vinebox

Hopefully this article has helped informed you on how important millennials are to the wine industry today. Now excuse me while I go and double fist a frozé and a 40 ounce rosé and start ordering some wine box subscriptions.