Red · Sonoma County · United States
Rodney Strong Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 7,095 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
“M: 2019 Consumed 2025 Hoar Cross Hall New Wine List Teaser (starts April) 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from American Legend Tom Klein Fresh blackcurrants & red currants draw you in before the rich cherry explodes onto the scene, well balanced by its oaky tones, with a soft vanilla sod…”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A deep, saturated color leads to lifted aromas of blackberry, cocoa and herby black-currant, which is followed by a rich, layered mouthfeel, loaded with juicy black cherry, cedar, and crème de cassis. This wine is also elegantly structured with fresh acidity and ripe, mature tannins.
Rodney Strong Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Sonoma County. At $11.97 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the under $15 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 7,095 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 7,386 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,155 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Rodney Strong 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 7,095.
