Red · Lodi · United States
Xanthos Projection Winemaker's Cut Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 347 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
“Unexpected delight. Decanted and allowed to breathe for about 30 minutes. Deep ruby color, good legs. Fragrant, fruity nose. First sip was meh. Second sip…it sprang to life. Rich cherry and blackberry. Hints of oak, vanilla, and cocoa. Tannins mellowed out and the acidity softened. Thought this was going to be an okay wine. I ended up enjoying it more than I thought. Would happily purchase again.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A deep garnet color and aromas of raspberry, black cherry, plum, and ripe currant fill the glass. The palate is soft, plush, and packed with raspberry jam, dried cranberry, and sweet boysenberry. Without a rough edge to be found, the luxurious texture carries across the palate finishing with more ripe red fruit and a hint of cocoa.
From Lodi in the United States, Xanthos Projection Winemaker's Cut Cabernet Sauvignon is a red. At $13.19 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the under $15 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. 347 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 365 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Xanthos Projection Winemaker's Cut 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 347.
