Red · Mount Harlan · United States
Calera Pinot Noir Mills Vineyard
Scored from 466 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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Tasting profile
A complex, layered Pinot Noir with reviewers noting black fruit, blackberry, strawberry, and cherry alongside earthy, spicy notes of truffle and nutmeg. Body ranges from medium to full with a smooth texture, low acidity, and a long, lingering finish that drinkers consistently call a standout.
Synthesized from 466Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Vermelho palido, translucido. Aromas de cereja e morangos. Delicioso, leve e frutado, com baixa acidez e uma agradável persistencia.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Calera Pinot Noir Mills Vineyard is an American red from Mount Harlan. At $185 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. The calibrated figure is built from 466 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 473 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 Calera Pinot Noir Mills Vineyard 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 466.
