Red · Napa Valley · United States
Emmolo Merlot
Scored from 5,277 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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Tasting profile
A full-bodied Merlot with deep, dark fruit - plum and blackberry - layered with earthy spice, smoke, and cocoa notes. Smooth and rich with a long, lingering finish that appeals even to Cabernet drinkers.
Synthesized from 5,277Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Excellent merlot! Nice fruit...long finish Second bottle...same rating..earthy nose with spice and smoke. Rich fruit dark color with cocoa notes. Nice long finish!!!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Napa Valley in the United States, Emmolo Merlot is a red.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,155 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 5,277 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 5,499 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 Emmolo Merlot 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 5,277.
