Most Innovative Companies

Union Wine Co.

Union Wine Company is the business behind Underwood Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris, the cans of wine you might have taken on a picnic or to the beach. It has led the "beer-ification" of wine, making products that are portable, unpretentious, and approachable for new wine drinkers. Introducing the cans in 2013 spurred a 168% three-year growth rate for the company.

Lists

2018: Food

Data

headquarters: Tualatin, OR

Union Wine Co. On The Web

https://unionwinecompany.com/

Stories about Union Wine Co.

Underwood Made Canned Wine Look Chic. Next Up? Wine Coolers

The company turned a marketing gimmick into an industry worth tens of millions of dollars a year. Now it’s set its sights on changing wine itself.

Underwood Made Canned Wine Look Chic. Next Up? Wine Coolers

Impact

5 takeaways from MacKenzie Scott’s giving $1.7 billion in support for social justice causes

How wealth inequality is warping the world of philanthropy

Nearly 40% of nonprofits may be forced to close because of the pandemic

Creativity

Netflix’s ‘Immigration Nation’ offers an unflinching portrait inside ICE—and a broken system

Read an exclusive excerpt from A24 Books’ latest edition featuring Ari Aster’s ‘Hereditary’

Jordan Peele, Katy Perry, and 107 other pop-culture musts for August

Co.Design

Why people should stop designing prosthetics that look realistic—and start designing ones that work

A $11.6 billion problem: As COVID-19 drains budgets, U.S. cities could face bankruptcy

This is the ultimate quarantine couch

Work Life

This simple but powerful analog method will rocket your productivity

10 things to do to make sure you ‘leave’ the office when you work from home

How to use your network to survive a bad job market