Barefoot Cellars Sauvignon Blanc California White Wine

Sauvignon Blanc is a grape the guides describe clearly, and that description is the most useful thing on this listing. The grape explainer calls it a white grape known for clear aroma and refreshing acidity, usually made as a dry still wine, though sweetness and oak use vary. Official regional guides list the common descriptions across the category: citrus, green herbs, gooseberry and tropical fruit, cooler sites leaning green and citrus, warmer or riper fruit leaning tropical. Those are the guides' words for the grape at large.

This bottle connects to that description at two points. The grape is confirmed, and the origin is California at the state level, so the cooler-or-warmer question stays open. The producer is the third point, and Barefoot's own account, detailed below, now fills it in.

As of August 12, 2026, ten stores listed prices between $6.99 and $12.99 for the 750 ml bottle, and the 144 shopper ratings on it average 4.28 out of five. Among the whites we price, that $6.99 low sits in the bottom tenth.

Barefoot's own account traces the brand to 1965, when Davis Bynum made Barefoot Bynum Burgundy in his garage in Albany, California; it became Barefoot Cellars in 1986, and winemaker Jennifer Wall has led its wines since 1995. Independent industry reporting adds that E. and J. Gallo Winery bought the brand in 2005 and has grown it from about 600,000 cases a year to more than 14 million, the top-selling wine brand in the country by dollar sales. On the label, the producer calls this bottling a “fruit-forward, crisp-style white wine,” with tasting notes it describes as opening with “honeydew melon and nectarine,” finishing with “dashes of jalapeno and sweet lime.”

Our call: buy it when the price is the point; its low end sits among the least expensive whites we track, and it carries one of the larger rating pools we track besides. Pass if you shop by score rather than by price, since its average sits below the middle of the rated wines we cover.

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