Red · Paso Robles · United States
Callaway Ely Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 434 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
“At first it had a meaty nondescript nose, but after being no open for 45 mins, started to smell red fruit and vanilla. Must let it open up to move from meaty and meh to bring out nice red fruit like currant and red cherry. Some small vanilla notes, bit not a ton. Good acidity and not super tannic. Lingering cherry and red note flavors for a medium length finish. Great with food. Medium ++ body. Got it for 12.99 at King Soopers - great value at that, could be a 20-24 dollar bottle.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Callaway Ely Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Paso Robles. At $16.50 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to 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 434 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 442 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 Callaway Ely 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 434.
