Red · California · United States
Cooper & Thief Pinot Noir (Aged in Brandy Barrels)
Scored from 997 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
“Very good wine if you want to taste a different “style?” of Pinot Noir. The alcohol contents are high at 16% but soft- I enjoyed that aspect. It is thick/round on the palate with a long brandy finish.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From California in the United States, Cooper & Thief Pinot Noir (Aged in Brandy Barrels) is a red. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $30.44.
997 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 1,031 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds.
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 Cooper & Thief Pinot Noir (Aged in Brandy Barrels) 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 997.
