Red · Napa Valley · United States
Whitehall Lane Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 1,313 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
“Deep red and packed a powerful punch of dark fruit aromas with mocha and mineral. The palate shows ripe blackberries and plums, with toasty oak, that the 4 grape blend adds complexity to the wine. The 2012 was an ideal growing season. The wine was aged for 18 months in French and American oak. I had this 6 months ago and, although young, had approachable fine tannins. The finish was well balanced with good acidity and a nice mineral edge. This wine should age well for a decade. A great value.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Enticing aromas to the long, smooth finish. It's a blend of lush fruit with aromas of deep blackberry, currant and toasted oak. The wine has rich texture and flavours of cherry, plum and toasty vanilla. With ample fruit, good weight in the mid-palate and velvety tannins.
Whitehall Lane Cabernet Sauvignon is a red from Napa Valley, the United States. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $44.90.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,313 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,369 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 Whitehall Lane 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 1,313.
