Red · Okanagan Valley · Canada
Checkmate Silent Bishop
Scored from 178 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Canada (38 wines).
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Tasting profile
A full-bodied merlot showing dark fruits like blueberry, blackcurrant, and plum alongside chocolate, leather, tobacco, and well-integrated oak. Smooth and silky with ripe grippy tannins, balanced acidity, and a long finish carrying smoke, coffee, and mineral notes.
Synthesized from 178Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“A beautiful and elegant artisan wine, with a lovely finish Black fruits coffee and tobacco on the nose Nicely balanced on the palate Very nice indeed”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Okanagan Valley in Canada, Checkmate Silent Bishop is a red.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 37 other reds from Canada, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 178 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 178 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 Checkmate Silent Bishop 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 · Canada (38 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 178.
