Decoy Sauvignon Blanc

Start with the grape, which we confirmed. Sauvignon Blanc is a white variety known for clear aroma and refreshing acidity, and it is usually made as a dry wine. Official regional guides describe the category around citrus, green herbs and gooseberry, and they note that cooler sites can keep the green and citrus notes forward while warmer or riper fruit can lean more tropical. Decoy says the brand began in 1985 and became a stand-alone winery in 2008. The wine comes from California.

The prices are where it gets interesting: in our September 2026 checks across nine stores, the same bottle ran anywhere from $17.99 to $32.99. We do not have a shopper rating for this bottle, though for context the median rating among the 483 rated wines we track is 4.71.

Decoy's own listing for the current 2024 vintage describes layers of mango, pineapple, white peach and kiwi, with lively acidity balancing what the producer calls a creamy texture and a long, sweet finish. Decoy also reprints an older Wine Enthusiast score on its site: 90 points for the 2016 Sonoma County vintage, made, the reprint states, through stainless-steel fermentation, and described by the reviewer as lively, with lush and plush flavors of melon, pear and peach and complex accents of wild vanilla and fennel, the critic's words for a bottling eight vintages back, not the wine currently on shelves.

Our call: buy it if the tropical, mango-and-pineapple style Decoy's own note describes for this Sauvignon Blanc is the profile you want. Pass if you want a shopper rating or a current-vintage score behind it; no shopper rating has reached our record, and the one professional score Decoy reprints, 90 points from Wine Enthusiast, belongs to a Sauvignon Blanc eight vintages older than what is on shelves now.

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