Red · Barossa Valley · Australia
Charles Melton Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 98 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Australia (517 wines).
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Tasting profile
A full-bodied Barossa Cabernet with dark fruit at its core - plum, blackberry, and cassis - layered with leather, inky tar, pepper, eucalyptus and Christmas spice, framed by oak and a chocolate edge. Powerful yet elegant, dry-finishing and well-structured, it ages beautifully into a balanced wine with softened tannins and a long, rewarding finish.
Synthesized from 98Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Absolutely in it’s prime at 15 years. Nose you want to inhale all night. Elegant, balanced softened tanins with long rewarding finish 98 points”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Charles Melton Cabernet Sauvignon is an Australian red from Barossa Valley.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 516 other reds from Australia, not against the corpus as a whole. 98 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 99 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Charles Melton 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 · Australia (517 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 98.
