Barefoot Cellars Moscato California White Wine

Moscato is a family name rather than a single grape: a group of aromatic whites that includes Moscato Bianco, whose aromas the Asti consortium describes as flower, peach and apricot. Grocery-store versions can be still, lightly fizzy or fully sparkling, and our grape research notes that many familiar bottlings keep noticeable sweetness with lower alcohol. If you are choosing between two Moscatos in the aisle, the sweetness and bubble words on the label settle what the brand name does not.

Barefoot's version is a California wine and one of the least expensive whites we track; the lowest price in our current checks is $6.99. Barefoot's own account of its history, detailed below, is now on record.

466 shoppers have rated it, a count few wines in our catalog exceed. The score is 4.58 stars, short of the 4.71 median across the 483 rated wines we cover, and no critic had a hand in that number.

The highest price in the same checks is $12.99. That figure comes from ten stores, observed as of August 12, 2026.

Barefoot's own account of its history is specific: the brand traces itself to 1965, when Davis Bynum made Barefoot Bynum Burgundy in his garage in Albany, California, and it took the Barefoot Cellars name and its footprint label in 1986. Winemaker Jennifer Wall joined the company in 1995 and has led its wines for more than 25 years, the brand's own credit for its more than 10,000 medals and accolades. Independent industry reporting fills in a chapter the producer's page leaves out: E. and J. Gallo Winery bought Barefoot in 2005, and case volume has grown from about 600,000 cases a year to more than 14 million since, making it the top-selling wine brand in the country by dollar sales. On the label, the producer calls this bottling “a sweet, lively white wine with a light, crisp acidity,” built on tropical and stone-fruit flavors such as pineapple and peach.

Our call: buy it on the price position, which is the whole argument; this Moscato sits among the least expensive whites we track, and its rating pool is one of the larger in our catalog. Pass if a small producer's story is what you're after; Barefoot's own account is one of scale, a 1965 garage wine grown into a Gallo-owned brand making more than 14 million cases a year, not a single-vineyard pedigree.

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