Fetzer Valley Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon Red Wine

So, Fetzer's Valley Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon does not try to be more than it is. Fetzer says it is a Certified B Corporation, run out of Hopland, California, in Mendocino County. That is a fact about the company, not about this particular batch of grapes. Cabernet Sauvignon, the grape here, grows in many wine regions and often makes a firmly built wine. Guides on the grape point to black currant, cherry and plum as typical fruit notes, with noticeable tannin and, when oak is used, possible spice. Those same guides note that ripeness and how a Cabernet is made can push it toward lean and herbal in one bottle and broad and fruit-led in another.

The number of shopper ratings so far is 1. That rating is 4 out of five. This bottle was priced from $9.99 to $12.99 in our September 2026 checks, toward the low end for the red wines we track.

We do not have a confirmed vineyard region for this bottle, but Fetzer's B Corporation claim, tied to its home in Hopland, California, was current when we checked the company's own site in August 2026.

Valley Oaks itself has become hard to pin down. Fetzer's current site, checked in August 2026, lists eight wines under its main lineup, and none of them carries the Valley Oaks name that appears on this bottle's label; the closest match on the site today is a plain "Cabernet Sauvignon" page describing a California wine at 13.5 percent alcohol. Whether that page describes the same wine now sold as Valley Oaks, or a different bottling entirely, the site does not say, so we are treating its tasting notes as unconfirmed for this label rather than folding them in as fact.

Our call: worth a look for a shopper who wants an inexpensive Cabernet Sauvignon from a producer that documents its B Corporation status; this bottle sits toward the low end of the red wine prices we track, and Fetzer's Hopland, California home is a stated fact. Pass if you want the Valley Oaks name confirmed on the maker's own current site; Fetzer's pages do not carry it today, and the single shopper rating on record is too thin to lean on instead.

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