Live · 69,234 wines
Wines
Every wine with at least 3 z-qualifying Vivino reviewers, ranked on a 90% confidence-interval floor and dual-scored (z-normalized + raw average).
Top of the rankings
Highest z-normalized percentile
Where the methodology pays off
Biggest inflation gaps
Wines where z-normalized and raw-average percentiles diverge most.
Score distribution
z-normalized · all 69,234 wines
Source coverage at launch
One source at launch — Vivino — with uniform reviewer weighting (one source = no per-source weighting required). Professional-critic integration (Wine Advocate, Wine Spectator, Jancis Robinson, Decanter, Vinous, James Suckling, Jeb Dunnuck, CellarTracker) is on the roadmap. When a second source joins, the per-source weighting table below activates for the R2 aggregate.
| Vivino (live) | 3.24M reviewers, 14.3M reviews ingested. 1.17M qualified for z-normalization (DB1, stddev>0); 1.37M qualified for raw-average track (DB2, review_count≥2). Catalog filter: ≥3 z-normalizable reviewers per wine. |
|---|---|
| Wine Advocate (planned) | Weight 10 — oldest professional 100-pt scale |
| Wine Spectator (planned) | Weight 10 — institutional panel reviews |
| Jancis Robinson MW (planned) | Weight 9 — 20-pt scale with less inflation pressure |
| Decanter, Vinous (planned) | Weight 8 — international panel coverage |
| James Suckling, Jeb Dunnuck (planned) | Weight 7 — prolific professional critics |
| CellarTracker (planned) | Weight 3 — enthusiast crowd, deep on specific wines |
Global and cohort percentiles
Every wine gets two percentiles per aggregation lens: global (CI-floor ranked against all wines in our database) and cohort (same CI-floor, re-ranked within same-category wines priced within ±20% of the target).
- Global R1 — headline number on the product card. A 90 means top 10% of all wines.
- Cohort R1 — the same CI-floor ranked against its price peers. A $20 wine at cohort-95 is the best $16–$24 wine we've measured.
- Global R2 / R3 — the source-weighted and broadened lenses. Large gaps from R1 drive our taglines (e.g. "Professional critics rate this far above the crowd consensus").
Each product page publishes all six numbers plus the underlying mean z-score, CI-floor, and effective sample size for every lens — so you can audit any percentile against our open-source pipeline.
What we'll cover at launch
Year-one target: 150-200 wines reviewed end-to-end with full normalization math visible. Cadence: 2-4 wines per week. Coverage priorities:
- Under-$15 value picks across common varietals
- Napa Cabernet 2019-2022 vintages
- Red and white Burgundy 2020-2022
- Champagne + sparkling value picks
- Italian reds (Barolo, Brunello, Chianti Classico)
- Spanish Rioja + Ribera del Duero
- Australian Shiraz + Cabernet
Expansion from there driven by search demand and seasonal relevance. See the full methodology for the math behind every score.
Frequently asked questions
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Status: wines is live with 10,557 dual-scored wines across 176 catalog pages. Browse the catalog at /wines/catalog, or view the full methodology for how each score is computed.