Ck Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon California Red Wine

The grape in the name, Cabernet Sauvignon, is the place to start. Our grape research calls it a red grape grown in many regions, one that often makes firmly built wines and turns up often in blends. For taste, regional authorities point to black currant, cherry and plum, with noticeable tannin and possible spice from oak. They add that ripeness, climate and winemaking can leave it lean and herbal in one bottle and broad and fruit-led in another.

Behind the name is CK Mondavi & Family, which says the Mondavi family still runs the company today, across several generations. California is the origin the name gives, though which vineyards grew the grapes is not something we can confirm here.

The number of shopper ratings so far is 1. That one score is 5 out of five, a single shopper's read rather than a settled picture. On price, our September 2026 checks found this among the least expensive reds we track, with the lowest observed price at $6.99 and the highest at $15.99.

The maker says it began making and bottling California wine in 1946.

CK Mondavi's own page for this Classic-tier bottle lists 13.6 percent alcohol and less than a gram of sugar per five-ounce serving, essentially a dry wine, with tasting notes of 'ripe and focused boysenberry, blueberry, and huckleberry flavors' alongside 'molasses and smoky oak notes,' the producer's words. The company states the wine is vegan, gluten-free, bottled in Napa, and made by a family business it describes as majority female-owned. Current head winemaker Randy Herron, who joined in 2018, states his approach favors an 'elegant and fruit-forward style' meant to be 'approachable' and food-friendly, a house style that applies across the CK Mondavi range rather than to this Cabernet specifically.

Our call: this suits a shopper who wants a five-generation family label's own account of style and grape at one of the least expensive Cabernet prices we track, backed now by the producer's own alcohol and sugar numbers instead of a blank technical record. Pass if you buy on the shopper crowd instead of the maker's word: the single rating on record is one shopper's score, not yet a pattern worth trusting.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.