Red · Columbia Valley · United States
Gravel Bar Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 392 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
“Incredible value. Really well made Cab. Intense nose of red and black currant, as well as pine resin, pencil lead and a hint of black pepper. Also ripe Bing cherry and underripe plum. Overall fruits are more red than black. Palate matches, with maybe a hint of green bell pepper. Medium plus acidity, tannin and finish. Heartily recommend regardless of price, but very strongly recommend for the price. Provides a refreshing Cabernet with excellent structure and complexity.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This wine is in Indigo color. Bright, fruity aromas of berry berry a la mode, melted toffee, and chocolate mint mousse with a satiny, fruity medium-to-full body and an effortless, interesting, medium-length creme brulee and buttered nuts finish with silky tannins and light oak. A smooth, delicious and satisfying cabernet.
From Columbia Valley in the United States, Gravel Bar Cabernet Sauvignon is a red.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. The calibrated figure is built from 392 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 403 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 Gravel Bar 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 392.
