Red · Alexander Valley · United States
Architect Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 225 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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What reviewers say
“4.1 is spot on here. This cab has a nice price point. There are better options for the price, but no need to shy away. Deep fruit bouquet and a bit of fruit on the front. Good color though medium claret. It has some tannins but not a ton. Overall it has very good balance with decent acidity. Hopefully it will coordinate with pizza. At $30 it may be a bit heavily priced, but worth exploring!!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Architect Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Alexander Valley. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $24.95, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,155 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 225 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 226 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 Architect 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 225.
