America’s Best-Selling Premium Wines

A year younger and slightly fresher in flavor than Kendall-Jackson’s 2016 version of the wine, this bottling is equally buttery, with an abundance of tropical fruit on the palate.

Prosecco, a bubbly wine made from the glera (or prosecco) grape in Italy’s Veneto, surpassed Champagne in 2018 to become the world’s largest-selling sparkler. This flowery, fruity example is the top-selling brand in America — selling almost as much as all champagne brands combined in 2017.

Now owned by gigantic Constellation Brands, Meiomi specializes in pinot noir and chardonnay sourced from Sonoma, Monterey, and Santa Barbara counties. Smooth and well balanced, this fruit-forward pinot noir matches well with a wide array of foods.

This classic, well-structured Champagne is mostly pinot noir, with smaller quantities of chardonnay and pinot meunier. Both rich and elegant, it’s a luxurious wine at a reasonable price (for Champagne).

The third Marlborough sauvignon blanc on this list (see Nos. 12 and 18), and the most expensive of the three — though still reasonably priced — this grassy, flinty, well-balanced wine obviously appeals to a wide range of white wine lovers.