Red · California · United States
Cupcake Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 1,546 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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What reviewers say
“I love sweet, jammy, fruity cabs. Love them. For $10 or less, this is a great bottle, and extra points for being from Livermore (gotta represent non-Napa NorCal) Similar to Bogle or Chateau Ste. Michelle, this is mass distributed Cabernet that will please more people than it will gross out. Great with anything Italian, comfort food, chocolate, or just on its own. I'm new to Cupcake, but I'll definitely be buying this again in the future.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Rich flavors of ripe blackberry, cherry and plum lead to a lovely, juicy mouthfeel balanced by soft notes of espresso and spice.
From California in the United States, Cupcake Cabernet Sauvignon is a red. It sits in the under $15 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $10.99.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,155 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. 1,546 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 1,606 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 Cupcake 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 1,546.
