Red · Napa Valley · United States
Heitz Cellar Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 5,968 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
“Ripe cassis, blackberry and blueberry, with a good dose of vanilla and chocolate on the nose. Nothing green here, and no hints of tertiary aromas. A little menthol shows after some time. Medium+ body, a little more nimble than I was expecting from the 14.5% alcohol.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Rich and lush with a striking garnet hue. The wine is immediately captivating with its delicious aroma of crushed blackberry and notes of cassis.Deep berry flavors explode in the mouth in a delightful integration of varietal complexity. This is a big wine to linger over, impressively balanced with velvety tannins on the finish.
From Napa Valley in the United States, Heitz Cellar Cabernet Sauvignon is a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $60.00, which puts the bottle in the $60–120 band.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. 5,968 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 6,111 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 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 5,968.
