Antara Sinha, with a tough assignment at Wirecutter:

In our hunt for the best, we tasted 40 canned cocktails. Many just couldn’t hold up to the quality of a freshly made drink. But a few were balanced, complex, and convenient enough that we wouldn’t mind sipping on them in a variety of settings, from sunny beach days to, yes, swanky dinner parties. Here are the cans we couldn’t get enough of.

I’ve never tasted a canned cocktail worth trying again, but I haven’t tried any of these. “Best canned cocktails” is like “best frozen pizza”: a convenience option—acceptable in a pinch, probably better than nothing, and always a pale imitation of the real deal.