Red · Napa Valley · United States
Slingshot Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 1,189 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
“Color: dark purple. Nose: new leather, dark berries, stewed plum, espresso. Taste: dry, full-bodied, tannic, robust, lingering finish. Strongly oaked taste, plum, espresso, juniper, chocolate.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This wine has the structure to age beautifully in the bottle for many years. In the mouth it feels round, with soft tannins punctuated by just enough acidity. Subtle berry and black cherry flavors combine with a touch of dark caramel and coffee. The long finish lingers with suggestions of vanilla and herbs.
From Napa Valley in the United States, Slingshot Cabernet Sauvignon is a red. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $21.89.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. The calibrated figure is built from 1,189 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,236 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 Slingshot 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 1,189.
