Red · Napa Valley · United States
Caymus Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 37,995 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
Round and velvety with low tannins and a smooth, creamy body, this Caymus Cab leads with chocolate, dark fruit, cherry, and strawberry, layered with vanilla, oak, and a touch of spice. Reviewers describe it as elegant yet approachable, with a long, lingering finish that drinks well now.
Synthesized from 37,995Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Love the bouquet of the Caymus, vannilla, black fruit, oak, smooth finish. One of our favorite cabs these days! Yummy! Ready to drink now.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Celebrated by the Vivino community as ‘bold yet smooth; rich and complex’, ‘very well balanced’ and ‘wonderful on the first sip’, this Caymus Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon demands attention. The vibrant, oaky and earthy Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, with subtle black fruit undertones, is reassuringly bold and velvety, and for this reason, has earned its place as one of the Vivino community’s favourite Cabernet Sauvignons. One Vivino member even commented, ‘Just wow! An explosion of different flavors’, and another admitted that they were ‘not sure how much better you can get for any price’. With origins in the renowned Caymus Vineyards, the famous winemaking region’s unique heritage can be tasted with each drop. In 1972, Chuck Wagner and his late parents, Lorna and Charlie Sr., opened Caymus Vineyards, starting off with 240 cases of Cabernet Sauvignon. Over half a century later, Caymus Vineyards in Napa Valley remains 100% family-owned and run, and uses many of the same winemaking techniques of generations before. If you’re looking for a specific year to try first, Caymus Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 vintage is ranked 93 by wine professional, Wilfred Wong. However, Caymus Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 and 2018 vintages are both in high demand across the U.S. and beyond. Pair any of these vintages with beef, lamb, game, poultry or a cheese board for a dinner party match made in heaven. Bon appétit!
Caymus Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Napa Valley. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $74.95, which puts the bottle in the $60–120 band.
37,995 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 40,109 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds.
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 Vineyards 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 37,995.
