Red · Rutherford · United States
Nickel & Nickel DeCarle Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 285 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
A bold, dry Cabernet with firm but rounded tannins, leading with dark blackberry and cherry fruit and finishing on an earthy, dusty note. Reviewers describe it as velvety and deep, with enough structure to stand up to hearty pasta dishes.
Synthesized from 285Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“4.7 Blind tasting led by @[1|24963514|Kevin Ware]. Big dark fruit with a beautifully rounded tannin structure. Thoroughly enjoyed this.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Nickel & Nickel DeCarle Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Rutherford. At $94.95 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 285 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 292 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 Nickel & Nickel DeCarle 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 285.
