Red · Alexander Valley · United States
Rodney Strong Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 1,147 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
“Moderate funk upon opening, quickly dissipates. Musty nose of mushrooms and dark fruit. After 5 minutes of decanting, great fruit flavors, grippy tannins, nice acidity, and if this vineyard were located there….Rutherford dust.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Full bodied and richly textured, this cabernet displays intense aromas and flavors of black currant, sandalwood, white pepper, and cocoa, with a smooth, lingering finish.
Rodney Strong Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Alexander Valley. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $37.95.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,155 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. 1,147 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 1,175 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Reserve 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 1,147.
