Red · Dry Creek Valley · United States
Dry Creek Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 2,148 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · United States (1,156 wines).
Find this wine: view on Vivino · compare prices on Wine-Searcher
What reviewers say
“OK Wow! What a difference a couple more years in the bottle can make! I wasn’t impressed 2 years ago when I had this same wine. But this time was a completely different story.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Aromatics of bright red cherry, red raspberry and dried thyme qualities that mingle with darker elements of black cherry, espresso and cassis. The palate is full of ripe fruits and balanced tannins.
From Dry Creek Valley in the United States, Dry Creek Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $29.99, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. The calibrated figure is built from 2,148 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,213 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 Dry Creek Vineyard 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 2,148.
