Red · Knights Valley · United States
Anakota Helena Montana Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 376 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · United States (1,156 wines).
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Tasting profile
A full-bodied, deep ruby Cabernet with rich blackberry and brambly fruit layered against cigar box, tobacco, smoke, and oak, finishing with a touch of chocolate. Powerful and tannic yet well-integrated, with a smooth, balanced finish that drinks closer to Napa than Sonoma.
Synthesized from 376Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Dry, with lots of tannins, oak and blackberry, long finish in the palate. One of the best californans wines I've tried.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Anakota Helena Montana Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Knights Valley.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. The calibrated figure is built from 376 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 381 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Anakota Helena Montana Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against Red · United States (1,156 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 376.
