Red · San Carlos · Argentina
Catena Zapata Birth of Cabernet
Scored from 895 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Argentina (482 wines).
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Tasting profile
A fruit-forward Cabernet showing blackberry, cassis and red fruit alongside discreet notes of tobacco, honey and expressive oak. Smooth, velvety and elegantly balanced with low acidity and a medium finish, though reviewers suggest it will benefit from several more years of aging.
Synthesized from 895Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Que buen vino! Una experiencia que empieza con el gozo al contemplar el arte de la botella y se completa al degustarlo. De lo mejor que he tomado en años.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Catena Zapata Birth of Cabernet is an Argentine red from San Carlos. The blend is Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 482 Argentine reds. The calibrated figure is built from 895 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 900 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 Catena Zapata Birth of Cabernet 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 · Argentina (482 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 895.
