Red · Alexander Valley · Stati Uniti d'America
Decoy Limited Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 2,318 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Stati Uniti d'America (5 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Pop and pour on Saturday evening. Decoy has never been a go-to for me, but this was a step up, both in quality and price. Med+ intensity nose of stewed blackberry and vanilla. Initial sips matched the nose, with stewed blackberry, plum, vanilla and a little smoke.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Decoy Limited Cabernet Sauvignon is a red from Alexander Valley, the United States. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $25.95.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 4 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 2,318 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,360 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 Decoy Limited 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 · Stati Uniti d'America (5 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 2,318.
