Decoy Red Wine 750ml

How far back does a bottle simply called Decoy Red go? The brand puts its own start at 1985 and says it became a stand-alone winery in 2008. Its origin is California, and the name stops at "red," so which grapes are inside stays unconfirmed here.

We do not have a shopper rating for this wine, so the price is the plain fact to weigh. Across our September 2026 checks it sat between $21.99 and $23.99.

Decoy's site lists a Decoy California Red Blend as its only generic, California-tier red, the closest match on the producer's site to this listing. Its current tasting note describes bright raspberry, concentrated boysenberry and sweet cranberry layered with nutmeg and oak spice, carried by smooth tannins and a round, structured feel. An older reprint on the same site, covering the 2014 Sonoma County version of this line, names a blend of 52 percent Merlot, the only blend-composition figure Decoy has published for this red anywhere on its site, though it is nine vintages old and not confirmed to describe the bottle sold today.

Our call: buy it if a soft, fruit-forward everyday red built on raspberry, cranberry and nutmeg, the style Decoy's own listing describes for its California Red Blend, is what you want. Pass if you need the blend confirmed for the vintage on shelves now or a shopper rating behind it; the one blend figure on record, 52 percent Merlot, is nine vintages old, and no shopper rating has reached our record for this bottle.

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