Red · Sonoma County · United States
Sebastiani Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 3,458 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
“Well hot damn! Trumps President and I got this real good bottle of wine. Damn bottle smelt so good almost drowned myself sticking my nose so far down the neck to get a better whiff. Once it came out and hit my lips I was like Frank the Tank.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Sebastiani Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Sonoma County. At $18.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
3,458 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 3,632 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 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 Sebastiani Sonoma County 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 3,458.
