Red · California · United States
Pavette Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 201 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
“Selection from Deanna shared over vinNebraska board meeting at her house 1/30/23. Part of the February Vino Mas Wine Club. Whole berry primary fermentation & spontaneous malolactic in tank followed by aging in a regimen of oak barrels & tank for 14 months. Palate like a dark chocolate covered cherry. Notes of currant & plum fruit with cocoa.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Pavette Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from California. It sits in the under $15 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $13.19.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 201 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 211 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Pavette 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 201.
