Red · Oakville · United States
Heitz Cellar Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 1,916 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
“Excelente el Heitz Marthas Vineyard acompañado de unos rib eyes bien marmoleados en Las Bocas con mi Martha”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The enticing dark garnet color of this Cabernet softens and elongates as you tilt the wine glass to see the translucence of the hue on the edges. Its classic, clean mint aroma evokes a smile in recognition of an “old friend”. On the palate, layers of complexity show an opulence of fruit, smoothly integrated with the core tannins of a slightly cooler growing season. This is a beautifully focused wine with textbook varietal character.
From Oakville in the United States, Heitz Cellar Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is a red. At $250 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,916 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,965 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 Heitz Cellar Martha's 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 1,916.
