Red · Columbia Valley · Vereinigte Staaten
Chateau Ste. Michelle Cabernet Sauvignon 50 Years
Scored from 2,066 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Vereinigte Staaten (18 wines).
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What reviewers say
“I usually tend to avoid “French approache” for the Cabernet Sauvignon I want at my table, and for me both ZAF and Australia are countries that work quite well the vine grape to my taste.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Columbia Valley in the United States, Chateau Ste. Michelle Cabernet Sauvignon 50 Years is a red.
17 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 2,066 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,136 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 Chateau Ste. Michelle Cabernet Sauvignon 50 Years 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 · Vereinigte Staaten (18 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 2,066.
