Sparkling · California · United States
Decoy Brut Cuvée
Scored from 799 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · United States (455 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Nose of pear, golden delicious apple, ginger, lemon, and minerals. Bursting with acidity, and quite dry up front, but the fruit comes through on the palate eventually with more citrus notes, Asian spices, stone fruit and tart chalky mineral finish with maybe a hint of salinity.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Decoy Brut Cuvée is a sparkling wine from California, the United States. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $18.95.
The calibrated figure is built from 799 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 820 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 454 other sparkling wines from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Decoy Brut Cuvée 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 Sparkling · United States (455 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 799.
Cohort: Sparkling · United States
