Red · Suisun Valley · United States
Caymus-Suisun Grand Durif
Scored from 3,588 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 bold, robust Petite Sirah with deep, intense fruit-forward flavors of blackberry, cherry, and black currant, accented by licorice and pronounced but well-controlled tannins. Smooth and jammy with a long finish, it pairs naturally with steak, lamb, and game.
Synthesized from 3,588Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Easily my favorite wine. It has a really deep rich flavor that will only work for you if you like really intense wines - but it's DELICIOUS. You get some wine lipstick at the end too!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A potent Suisun Valley Durif (Petite Sirah) that balances dark intensity with mellow elegance. Deep notes of blackberry, blueberry compote, and dark plum are layered with mocha, violet florals, black pepper, and savory bay leaf. Medium‑plus bodied with silky, dusty tannins and bright acidity, it has a long finish with a whisper of dark chocolate and tobacco. Pair with grilled ribeye, braised short ribs, pepper‑crusted sausages, or pepper steak – a robust, refined companion for hearty fare.
Caymus-Suisun Grand Durif is a red from Suisun Valley, the United States. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $59.99, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band.
3,588 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 3,693 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,155 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Caymus-Suisun Grand Durif 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 3,588.
