Red · Napa Valley · United States
Purlieu Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 11 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 concentrated, fruit-forward Cabernet leading with juicy blackberry, blueberry, and cassis, layered with dark chocolate and a touch of earthy minerality. Still youthful and firmly tannic, with abundant fruit and a generous bouquet built for the long haul.
Synthesized from 11Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“One of the best cabs I have tasted, all I can say is you have to try it.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Napa Valley in the United States, Purlieu Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is a red.
Only 11 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 11 reviewers with at least two ratings 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 Purlieu Sugarloaf Mountain 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 11.
