Menage a Trois Decadence Cabernet Sauvignon California Red Wine

Among the reds we follow, this one is one of the least expensive, as low as $10.99 at one store in our September 2026 checks. The grape named here is Cabernet Sauvignon, and that is the part worth understanding. Grape research describes it as a red grown in many regions that tends to make firmly built wines and often joins red blends. It also makes a useful point: the grape's style is not fixed. How ripe the fruit gets, the climate it grew in, and the choices made in the cellar can pull the same grape toward a leaner, more herbal wine or a broader, fruit-forward one.

For flavor, guides for the grape point to black currant, cherry and plum, with noticeable tannin and possible spice from oak. That describes Cabernet Sauvignon in general, not a taste we can promise for this bottle. On the store's five-point scale it holds 5, from a rating count of 3 so far. That runs above the 4.71 median across the 483 wines shoppers have rated.

The brand says Trinchero Family Wine and Spirits owns its website and operates it, a fact about the company rather than about where these grapes grew. The origin the record gives is California. At another store in those same September 2026 checks, the wine was priced at $15.99.

Ménage à Trois's own product page adds tasting language specific to Decadence: "generous berry aromas kissed by bittersweet chocolate" opening onto "opulent black cherry, blackcurrant, and blackberry flavors" with what the producer calls "lavish vanilla spice" and a smooth, lingering finish, aged, the winemaking notes say, in both French and American oak. The same page displays a 91-point score, but names no critic or publication behind it, so it stands apart from the shopper rating discussed above rather than adding to it. Alcohol content and a full blend breakdown are both absent from the producer's site.

Our call: among the reds we track, this is one of the least expensive, and the shoppers who have rated it so far have it running above the shelf median, both real reasons to reach for it at this price. Pass if a handful of ratings feels too thin to trust; that is a start, not a track record, and the 91-point score the producer shows on its own site names no source to weigh alongside it.

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