Red · Alexander Valley · United States
Goldschmidt Vineyards Fidelity Red
Scored from 228 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
“Medium ruby in color with a nose of dark red and black fruit, oak spice. Rich tastes of blackberry, black cherry, black plums, black raspberry. Well balanced blend of 76% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Petit Verdot, 3% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Malbec aged in French oak with 12 months of bottle age. Medium to full in body with a fairly lengthy finish. Notes of vanilla, brown baking spices. Supple tannins.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Goldschmidt Vineyards Fidelity Red is Cabernet Sauvignon grown in Alexander Valley, bottled as a red. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $22.99.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. The calibrated figure is built from 228 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 233 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 Goldschmidt Vineyards Fidelity Red 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 228.
