Red · California · United States
BV Coastal Estates Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 2,106 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
“This is not your typical Cali cab and therefore you may or may not like this one. But I have certainly enjoyed it today. First note is it is not near as dark or dense as most. Nose is mostly cherry and spice with a hint of black tea.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has medium bodied, the aromas are echoed on the palate, and completed by hints of dark chocolate. Finishing with a light, velvety texture.
From California in the United States, BV Coastal Estates Cabernet Sauvignon is a red. At $12.95 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the under $15 band.
2,106 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 2,193 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds.
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 BV Coastal Estates 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 2,106.
