Red · Russian River Valley · United States
DuMOL Russian River Valley Pinot Noir
Scored from 873 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
“A bit pricey, I have it all the time so one of my favorites, especially for a Pinot!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
I sincerely believe that our collection of 2014 Pinot Noir wines is our finest to date. The quality is that impressive and perfectly consistent from vineyard to vineyard, wine to wine. It’s certainly the finest since 2002, my long time benchmark. In contrast to the generally red-fruited 2013 wines, our 2014 Pinots are all about dark fruit intensity and that includes this new vintage of the RRV. There’s real depth, concentration and personality in the wine which is the product of high-elevation, low-yielding mature vineyards, farmed with great precision and harvested just as the fruit reaches perfect maturity, not too early or late. This precision is reflected in the wine’s sleek, focused dark core. There’s a strong mineral edge to these dark fruit flavors. If 2013 was bright bing cherry, the new vintage is all morello black cherry and kirsch. It’s packed full of intricate detail, subtle nuance and soulful complexity and goes way beyond simple, upfront fruity pinot. The layers of deep flavor expand as the wine opens in the glass – focused, then chewy then silky and fine. The firm back end has great acid and tannin definition that absorbs the wine’s natural concentration, holds the power in-check and leaves the palate refreshed and mouthwatering. Very classic DuMOL RRV Pinot and a wine that will deliver increasing finesse over the next decade. This can stand toe-to-toe with this fall’s designates. Complex layered aromas – black cherry, black pepper, cassis and graphite, full and rich. Brambly, wild and underbrushy with faded rose and pomegranate notes. Sweet fruit entry with great lift in the mouth, juicy and vibrant, sage and bay leaf detail. Becomes succulent and open, cherry liqueur and minerals. Fresh acidity and long bergamot tea infused finish. Drink between 2016 and 2022.
DuMOL Russian River Valley Pinot Noir is an American red from Russian River Valley. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $73.00, which puts the bottle in the $60–120 band.
873 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 905 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,155 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 DuMOL Russian River Valley 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 · 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 873.
