Red · South Australia · Australia
Salomon Estate Finniss River Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 144 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Australia (517 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Great Australian Cabernet Sauvignon a deep ruby color, with purple background. Aromas of black currants, cassis, dense cherry liquor, ripe blackberry, blackberry jam, black plum, smoked plum, prunes, plum confiture, smoke, dark chocolate, balsamic nuances, leather, cedar, smoked tomato, menthol, earthy accents. Wine integrated, round with clear fruity acidity and mature but still strong tannins, great structure. Finish very deep, sophisticated with spicy pepper aftertast.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The palate has loads of rich blackcurrant fruit yet still retains the varieties renown elegant structural feel. Flavours of subtle bay leaf, cedary tobacco and spice follow. Solidly built but fine grained tannins are for the most part concealed by the wealth of blackcurrant fruit. Excellent depth with a very long blackcurrant, cedary cigar box, subtle bay leaf and spice aftertaste.
Salomon Estate Finniss River Cabernet Sauvignon is an Australian red from South Australia.
144 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 156 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 517 Australian 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 Salomon Estate Finniss River 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 · Australia (517 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 144.
