Red · Napa Valley · United States
Beaulieu Vineyard (BV) Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 5,168 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
“I simply love the BV wines. It is not easy to remain as Napa as possible and feel the Rutherford dust power and in the same time not over-oak the wines and push them into the French elegance of aging. BV perform this task up to perfection.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has fruit flavors, vibrant acidity and mature, muscular tannins allowed us to complement the wine with bolder amounts of vanilla-oak and mocha nuances this year—both from new barrels and long oak aging.
Beaulieu Vineyard (BV) Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is a red from Napa Valley, the United States. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $24.20, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 5,168 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 5,333 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 Beaulieu Vineyard (BV) Napa Valley 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 5,168.
