Red · Sta. Rita Hills · United States
Fess Parker Santa Rita Hills Pinot Noir
Scored from 1,442 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
“It’s wine exploration day and as it’s Christmas Eve it’s a very appropriate day for our first visit to the Santa 🎅🏻 Rita Hills appellation to tick off the regional style of Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir (✅#566/747).”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Aromas of fruit, flower garden and spice aromatics, medium body and light, silky texture.
From Sta. Rita Hills in the United States, Fess Parker Santa Rita Hills Pinot Noir is a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $29.92, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
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 1,442 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,487 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 Fess Parker Santa Rita Hills 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 1,442.
