Red · Alexander Valley · United States
SIMI Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 5,282 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
“This 2013 Alexander Valley Simi CS blew my mind. Color was a dense deep purple color with only a 13.5% ABV but opened to a superb collection of aromas of currant, blackberries, ripe plums & a hint of mint & amaretto.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Its deep, dark garnet color and ruby edge with lifted and pretty aromas of bright cherry, blackberry, plum, and cassis. Baking spice, cedar, and chocolate notes round out the aromatic profile. Compelling flavors of cassis, cherry, and plum along with black pepper, cedar, and clove add life to this full-bodied yet silky wine that finishes with soft, velvety cocoa tannins.
SIMI Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from Alexander Valley.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. The calibrated figure is built from 5,282 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 5,513 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 SIMI Alexander Valley 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 5,282.
