Red · Napa Valley · Vereinigte Staaten
Heitz Cellar Bella Oaks Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 1,177 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Vereinigte Staaten (18 wines).
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Tasting profile
A classic old-school Napa Cabernet showing bright red fruit, currant and cranberry alongside black fruit, spice, cedar and a hint of bell pepper. Smooth and silky with medium-plus acidity, firm but integrated tannins, beautifully balanced and finishing long.
Synthesized from 1,177Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“From magnum. Classic old school Napa. Black fruit and spice, hint of Bell pepper. Medium+ acidity. Perfect balance. Firm but fully integrated tannins. Long finish”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Napa Valley in the United States, Heitz Cellar Bella Oaks Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is a red.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,177 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,216 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 18 American reds.
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 Heitz Cellar Bella Oaks 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 · Vereinigte Staaten (18 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 1,177.
