Red · Napa Valley · United States
Penfolds Bin 149 California Collection Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 129 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 silky, full-bodied Cabernet with refined, soft tannins and a smooth finish, showing dark berry, blackberry, and cassis fruit alongside vanilla, pepper, cedar, and hints of chocolate and coffee. Reviewers also note a savory edge - green olive or tomato leaf - that adds complexity to its vibrant, age-worthy character.
Synthesized from 129Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“This wine is going to be something special. I preferred the bin 600 but if you want a very complex wine go for 149.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Penfolds Bin 149 California Collection Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Napa Valley.
129 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 130 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 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 Penfolds Bin 149 California Collection 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 129.
