Red · St. Helena · United States
Spottswoode Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 1,501 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 bold, well-aged Napa Cab showing red and black fruit (blackberry, blueberry jam, hints of jammy ripeness) layered with cedar, leather, sweet tobacco, black tea, and toasted oak. Reviewers describe it as earthy and big yet smooth and balanced, with medium-plus acidity, polished tannins, and impressive longevity.
Synthesized from 1,501Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Drinking a magnum tonight with Beth and Lindy Novak, the owners. 1st time in 30 years Mr. Parker has given them a perfect 100 Points”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Exudes power and elegance. Dense and focused with primary, bright, youthful, fresh characters. Plenty of ripe blue and red fruit accompanied by notes of mocha, carob, butterscotch, and toast. Long, clean, and fresh. Discernable tannins that are youthful yet lengthy complement the underlying intense fruit.
Spottswoode Cabernet Sauvignon is a red from St. Helena, the United States. At $188 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,501 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,533 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Spottswoode 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 1,501.
