Red · Napa Valley · United States
Millworks Pillar & Post Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 145 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
“It punches well above its weight class. Out of the bottle, it was wild and jammy, but with some air it changed the entire profile of the wine. It was smooth and not as well balanced as a more premium wine, but it is at least knocking on their door.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
One of the most popular and celebrated wines to come out of Millworks Winery, Pillar and Post Cabernet Sauvignon is a true experience for all the senses. Dark and bold, with notes of dark fruit and pepper, this wine boasts a smooth finish with tannins – it’s no wonder it’s earned its place in the top 7% of wines to come out of the prestigious Napa Valley. Celebrated by the Vivino community as “getting better with each sip” and drinking “like a more expensive wine”, this full bodied red is the perfect blend of dry-meets-sweet, leaving a pleasant, lingering sense on the tongue. Pair it with poultry, beef and lamb, or why not serve it with a cheese board at your next dinner party; the piquancy will cut through the flavors perfectly and delight guests at your next dinner party. If you’re new to this wine, we’d recommend trying the Pillar and Post Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 variety as a first port of call, as this vintage rates better than any other year for this wine.
Millworks Pillar & Post Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Napa Valley. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $25.29, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
145 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 147 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Millworks Pillar & Post 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 145.
