Red · Napa Valley · United States
Duckhorn Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 9,217 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 bold, full-bodied red with big fruit and firm tannins, showing currant, cherry and plum alongside oak, chocolate and smoke notes. Reviewers describe it as smooth and rich, drinking well now but with the structure to cellar a few more years.
Synthesized from 9,217Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Nice, smooth oaky flavor. Really opened up after a bit, not long though, and was the perfect pairing with grilled rib-eye, baked potato and grilled veggies.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This is a rich, layered and mouth-filling wine with ripe, integrated tannins and a seductive fine-grained finish. Dark aromas of toffee, hickory, bacon, cedar and smoke are contrasted by more vibrant elements of red currant and spearmint. On the palate, rich black currant and blueberry flavors dominate, underscored by subtler notes of earth and oak.
Duckhorn Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Napa Valley. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $42.99, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 9,217 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 9,555 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 Duckhorn Napa Valley 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 9,217.
