Red · Napa Valley · United States
Cakebread Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 4,866 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 classic Napa Cabernet showing blackberry, plum, and cassis with vanillin oak, silky tannins, and lively acidity, rounded out by spice notes from a Bordeaux-style blend. Smooth and easy-drinking, it is a crowd favorite for holiday meals and pairs naturally with grilled steak.
Synthesized from 4,866Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Classic Napa Cabernet. Blackberry, plum, and cassis. Vanillin from the oak barrels, silky tannins, still has some acidity.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Cakebread Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Napa Valley.
4,866 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 5,080 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Cakebread 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 4,866.
