Red · Napa Valley · United States
Colgin IX Estate Red
Scored from 710 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
“Amazing and it's not Syrah, it is just epic and if you have a bottle drink it, it's Prime Time!!! It's so smoky and bloody and deep. I still taste it, 15.9% abv but holds it like a champ.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Those elusive aromas are layered by the pervasive meatiness of the Cote Rotie clones, like succulent grilled duck, cured ham, blackberry cobbler, white peppercorns, road tar, and even a hint of orange zest. This wine is deliciously pliant and coating on the palate, and supported by fresh acidity.
Colgin IX Estate Red is an American red from Napa Valley. The blend is Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot. At $525 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 710 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 728 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 Colgin IX Estate Red 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 710.
