Cook's California Champagne Extra Dry White Sparkling Wine

Price is the first thing worth saying about this sparkling wine. In our August 2026 checks it sat among the least expensive sparklers we track. 4 shoppers have rated it, averaging 4.75 out of five. California is the origin recorded here.

Across our September 2026 checks it ranged from $9.99 to $14.99.

Cook's own product page states the wine at 11.5 percent alcohol and describes it as a “Prosecco-style champagne,” with “light citrus and floral notes that mingle with slightly sweet pear and apple flavors.” The producer's history page traces the brand back further than most on our shelf: Isaac Cook founded it in 1859, and by the producer's own account Cook's Imperial Champagne was “the only domestic sparkling wine served at President Roosevelt's Birthday Ball at the Waldorf Astoria” in 1939. The brand changed hands more than once after that, from Schenley Distillers in 1945 to Guild Wineries in 1971 to Canandaigua Wine Company, later Constellation Brands, in 1991, and Cook's is, by its own account, one of the few American sparkling wines still permitted to use the “Champagne” name under a legal grandfather clause.

Our call: a sensible pick if price and a genuinely old American name are what you are shopping for; it sits among the least expensive sparkling wines we track, and the brand's own account traces it back to 1859, older than most sparkling wine names on a grocery shelf. Pass if you want a wine that tastes like French Champagne or carries independent critic backing; this is, by the producer's own description, a Prosecco-style, California-made wine, and no outside critic score is in our record.

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