Red · Napa Valley · United States
Diamond Creek Gravelly Meadow Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 465 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
A full-bodied Cabernet with a complex, perfumed nose of berries, cherry, eucalyptus and mint, layered with spice, wood and a touch of minerality. Reviewers find it well-balanced and smooth with surprisingly low tannin, drinking well now with decanting but built to age for decades.
Synthesized from 465Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“obscure very rare wine.still has miles to go. phenomal bouquet,this wine is going to triple in value in five years”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Diamond Creek Gravelly Meadow Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Napa Valley.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,155 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. 465 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 477 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 Diamond Creek Gravelly Meadow 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 465.
