Menage a Trois Gold Chardonnay California White Wine 750 ml

This is labeled a California Chardonnay, and the record names California as the origin while pointing to no particular county or vineyard. Chardonnay itself is a white grape. Official category guides describe a wide range, from lighter bottles that never touch oak to weightier ones fermented and aged in oak. For flavor, official category guides give the cool side of the grape citrus and apple and the ripe side stone or tropical fruit, and they note that oak, along with time spent on the settled yeast, can work in toast, spice and extra roundness, all of them choices in the cellar rather than a promise. If you are after a lean style or a full one, the name here will not tell you which. Ménage à Trois, for its part, states that Trinchero Family Wine and Spirits both owns and operates the brand's website.

Among the whites we track it sits toward the lower-priced end, with our September 2026 checks turning up prices from $11.49 to $14.99 across four stores. Shopper scoring here is thin: the response, which averages 5 out of five, rests on 1 rating.

The producer's own winemaker notes describe more of what goes into this style: a malolactic fermentation for a rounder mouthfeel, time on the settled yeast, and a finish in both French and American oak, aimed, the notes say, at what the producer calls a "lush and creamy" mouthfeel. The same page's tasting notes lead with crème brûlée, honeyed pineapple and tropical fruit, and close on a buttery finish, the producer's language for a riper, oak-shaped style of Chardonnay. A 91-point score also appears on the page, but the producer names no source for it, so it stands apart from the single shopper rating already on our record rather than adding to it. Alcohol content is not published on the producer's site.

Our call: this suits a shopper chasing the riper, oak-shaped Chardonnay style the producer describes plainly, crème brûlée and honeyed tropical fruit among the notes, at the lower-priced end of the whites we track. Pass if you want more than a single shopper's word on it; the one rating on our record is a start, not a pattern, and the 91-point figure on the producer's page 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.