Red · Marlborough · New Zealand
Dog Point Pinot Noir
Scored from 1,816 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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What reviewers say
“I really admire this producer & this Pinot Noir is one of the finest expressions of Marlborough Pinot that I’ve tried in a while. Med ruby. M+ aroma intensity w. cherry, black cherry, loganberry & plum. Bitter cocoa, mulberry & light toasty vanillin.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Marlborough in New Zealand, Dog Point Pinot Noir is a red. At $49.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band.
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 1,816 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,838 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 Dog Point 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 1,816.
