Apothic Inferno Red Blend California Red Wine

Inferno is a name that promises a story, and part of that story has now reached us: Apothic is a California brand under E. & J. Gallo Winery, launched in 2010 out of Modesto, a wine-guide account of the brand's history says. What the producer still has not named is a grape variety for this wine, so our grape guide, which needs a variety before it can say anything, has nothing to work with here. What remains firm: Apothic is the brand, the wine is a red blend, and the origin we confirmed is California, with no smaller area named.

Shoppers rated it anyway. By our last check on August 12, 2026, 180 of them had scored this wine, and among the 483 rated wines in our catalog only a sliver have drawn more raters. The average is 4.42 out of five, under 4.71, the midpoint rating across our catalog.

Price depends on where you shop. Across ten stores, our checks on August 12, 2026 found this bottle as low as $13.99 and as high as $21.99, a gap wide enough to reward a comparison before you buy.

If a grape variety is ever named for this blend, our grape guide will have something to say about it. For now the label offers only the product name, and the name is Inferno.

Apothic's own product page sets Inferno apart from the brand's other red blends on one point: the wine is aged in whiskey barrels. The page describes it as 'this distinctive whiskey barrel blend intertwines the richness of dark fruit notes with the unmistakable aromatics of charred oak spice,' the producer's words, and pairs it with pizza and barbecue. The same page offers whiskey-and-wine cocktail recipes built around the bottle, the Inferno Sour and the Dash of Fire among them, but still gives no grape variety, no alcohol percentage and no blend composition, so the wine's underlying grapes remain unconfirmed in our record.

Our call: this one suits a shopper who wants the whiskey-barrel style the producer describes and weighs breadth of feedback over detail; both that barrel treatment and the wine's rating pool, among the larger ones we track, are on record. Pass if what is actually in the bottle, or how it scores, is what you shop on; that average sits below the middle of the rated wines we cover, and no grape or alcohol figure is named for it anywhere we checked.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Aug 17, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.