Red · Sonoma County · United States
Kendall-Jackson Grand Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 2,180 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
“I opened this 🇺🇸 2019 CS and right away I got strong notes of blackberry, black cherry and currants. On the nose also some mocha, nutmeg and a touch of vanilla from the oak. It feels full and rich, with smooth tannins and a long finish.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This Cabernet has distinct flavors of blackberry, blueberry, and both red and black currants with enticing fragrances of mocha and nutmeg. Subtle notes of chocolate and toasty vanillins add to the richness and length of this bold Cab, and are accompanied by fine grained tannins on a lengthy finish.
From Sonoma County in the United States, Kendall-Jackson Grand Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is a red. At $32.47 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 2,180 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,268 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 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 Kendall-Jackson Grand Reserve 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 2,180.
