
Red · Napa Valley · United States
Cakebread Merlot
Two parallel scores from 967 z-qualifying reviewers and 999 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Red · United States.
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What reviewers say
“What a delicious bottle of wine! A classic expression of what Napa Merlot should taste like: that ripe blackberry flavour is amazing! While it’s big and luscious, it’s also complex and balanced (with acidity).”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Z-normalized corrects for reviewer bias (every reviewer re-centered onto their personal scale). Raw average uses simple mean across the broader pool including stddev=0 reviewers.
Where this wine sits
Z-normalized percentile · 1,156 peers in Red · United States
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.344 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean | 4.21 |
| DB2 raw-mean | 4.23 |
| Vivino site avg | 4.20 (4,225) |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.292 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 967 / 999 |
Summary
Description pending — enrichment is running across all 69,234 wines in the catalog.







