Red · Waitaki · New Zealand
Clos Ostler Caroline's Pinot Noir
Scored from 273 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · New Zealand (238 wines).
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Tasting profile
An elegant, complex Pinot Noir with prominent dark cherry fruit, floral notes, and a hint of white pepper, layered over fine minerality and a smooth, balanced mouthfeel. It drinks with Burgundian poise, turning subtly savory with air and finishing with notable length.
Synthesized from 273Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“A spectacular Pinot from New Zealand's Waitaki Valley. If you can find it, you are in for a treat!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Waitaki in New Zealand, Clos Ostler Caroline's Pinot Noir is a red.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 237 other reds from New Zealand, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 273 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 284 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 Clos Ostler Caroline's 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 · New Zealand (238 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 273.
