Red · San Luis Obispo County · United States
My Favorite Neighbor Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 1,645 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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Tasting profile
Dense, chewy, and full-bodied with a spicy finish, this Cabernet shows a complex nose of black cherries, amaretto, and dark, brooding notes of leather and iron. Well-integrated dusty tannins and red-berry fruit round out a powerful, explosive wine that opens up beautifully after 30-45 minutes.
Synthesized from 1,645Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“RP Matter of Taste - Napa: massive and unforgiving, this takes me not to a friendly neighbor, but to a dark brooding place with blood and iron, velvet and leather. A stunning beauty.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From San Luis Obispo County in the United States, My Favorite Neighbor Cabernet Sauvignon is a red.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. 1,645 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 1,697 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 My Favorite Neighbor 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 1,645.
