Red · Napa Valley · United States
Philip Togni Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 939 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 complex, Bordeaux-leaning Napa Cabernet showing blackberry, blueberry, and currant alongside layers of chocolate, vanilla, oak, tobacco, pepper, and smoke. Full-bodied with well-integrated, velvety tannins, balanced acidity, and a long, smooth finish that rewards decanting and cellaring.
Synthesized from 939Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Blackberry, blueberry, dark and red currant on the palate, hint of oak, chocolate..nVery nice, smooth and long finish to it..nBut it is 1998 vintage....”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Wonderfully savory and mineral, with a host of graphite, liquefied rock, floral and dark stone fruit notes that open up in the glass. Energetic, crystalline and beautifully focused throughout.
Philip Togni Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Napa Valley. It sits in the $120-and-up band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $155.
939 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 952 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 Philip Togni 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 939.
