Red · Napa Valley · United States
Dominus Napanook
Scored from 3,100 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 do love my Napa Cabs and this one is no different. Very typical nose and palate. Great producer and if this is the 2nd wine, then I can only wonder how good Dominus is. Reddish purple colour. Nose is punchy…dark fruit hits one up front.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It dark crimson in color, with a fragrant, rich nose full of blackberries and dark forest fruits. The aroma slowly reveals subtle notes of smoky sandalwood, chocolate, and sweet almonds. The entry on the palate is round, but firm; precise and enveloping. Well-balanced tannins open throughout the evolution, and linger on the finish with cherries, cedar and cacao.
Dominus Napanook is a red from Napa Valley, the United States, blended from Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $91.64, which puts the bottle in the $60–120 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 3,100 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,151 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Dominus Napanook 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 3,100.
