Red · California · United States
The Collection Bourbon Barrel Aged Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 239 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
“For the money, a great bottle of wine. Best served at room temperature. Right off the bat there's carmel and spice on the nose. Vanilla and oak on the palate with lingering smoke and black pepper on the finish. Not a particularly long finish but a pleasant one nonetheless. The 15% alcohol can overwhem the taste at first but softens quickly in the glass with a few swirls.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The Collection Bourbon Barrel Aged Cabernet Sauvignon is an American red from California. At $22.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. The calibrated figure is built from 239 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 254 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 The Collection Bourbon Barrel Aged 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 239.
