Red · Oakville · United States
Rudd Cabernet Sauvignon Samantha's
Scored from 326 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, dry Cabernet with a beautiful bouquet and ripe fruit on the entry leading into a clean, refined finish. Reviewers describe it as smooth and rich with soft tannins and well-balanced structure, drinking powerfully yet elegantly.
Synthesized from 326Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“So good, really enjoyed it again tonight. Bought 6 so I look forward to checking the other 5 to make sure they're as good.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Rudd Cabernet Sauvignon Samantha's is a red from Oakville, the United States. At $184 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 326 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 341 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Rudd Cabernet Sauvignon Samantha's 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 326.
