Red · Dunnigan Hills · United States
Matchbook Red Gravel Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 1,535 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
“Ruby red. On the nose there's aromas of tobacco, eucalyptus, mocha, black cherries, and sea salt. Medium bodied with a rich mouthfeel and a very present but not aggressive tannin. Flavors of black cherries, cassis, black olives, and vanilla.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has ruby red color. Deep rich black fruit flavors with boysenberry, leather and herbal notes. Hints of cedar and cigar box add to the complexity. The full flavors stick around for a long and lingering finish.
From Dunnigan Hills in the United States, Matchbook Red Gravel Cabernet Sauvignon is a red. At $16.95 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. 1,535 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 1,590 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 Matchbook Red Gravel 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 1,535.
