Red · Colchagua Valley · Chile
Araucano Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva
Scored from 735 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Chile (444 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Grata surpresa no jantar desta noite, um Cabernet bem elaborado, potente, com estrutura de gente grande, encorpado e finamente trabalhado.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ruby color with purple reflections. Even on the first nose the wine gives off aromas of blackberry, grilled sweet pepper and vanilla. It has a lovely roundness on the palate. Its finish matches its nose, freshened by a touch of eucalyptus.
Araucano Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva is a red from Colchagua Valley, Chile. At $49.49 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 443 other reds from Chile, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 735 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 761 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 Araucano Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva 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 · Chile (444 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 735.
