Red · Alexander Valley · United States
Rodney Strong Rockaway Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 417 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
Deeply colored and full-bodied, this Cabernet shows dark fruit and currant alongside notes of oak, chocolate, tobacco, pepper, and licorice. Powerful yet well balanced, it drinks smooth and elegant with a long, lingering finish.
Synthesized from 417Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“This wine still has plenty of life in it. It must have been a monster when it was young. Fabulously well balanced. Heavy mouth feel. Dark fruit. Just enough acid to give it character.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Rodney Strong Rockaway Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Alexander Valley.
The calibrated figure is built from 417 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 427 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Rodney Strong Rockaway 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 417.
