Red · California · United States
Apothic Pinot Noir
Scored from 875 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
“This wine has a light aroma of cherries, and is dark ruby in color. It has a wonderfully bold flavor of vanilla and black cherry, with an undertone of raspberry. The flavors are delightfully layered, with notes of chocolate and herbs on the finish. This wine is very smooth and luscious. I had it with my chicken parmigiana and it was a little too rich as a companion, but would be perfect with beef, lamb, and spaghetti, as well as other red sauce pastas. I really makes a great digestif.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Apothic Pinot Noir is an American red from California. It sits in the under $15 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $13.64.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. 875 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 899 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 Apothic Pinot Noir 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 875.
