Red · Paso Robles · United States
J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines Cuvée St. E
Scored from 132 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 smooth, fruit-forward California red blend with notes of blueberry, strawberry, and red cherry, often compared to a St. Emilion Grand Cru with softer, earthier character and more fruit than its Bordeaux counterpart. Bold yet mellow with a wonderful nose and a smooth finish, it pairs well with BBQ ribs.
Synthesized from 132Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Another amazing California red blend. Spicier, bolder, but just as mellow as Lohr Cuvee Pom. It's a wine I won't take with food. Drank with Ted Motoyoma.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A ripe, but savory fruit side of a Bordeaux style wine. Dark in color with a red hue, the initial aroma is plum confection with dark chocolate praline. A rich wine with zesty pomegranate fruit, blood orange and grenadine on the palate. The blunt texture finishes with dark fruited chocolate.
J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines Cuvée St. E is a red from Paso Robles, the United States. It blends Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. It sits in the $60–120 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $92.98.
132 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 132 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds.
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 J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines Cuvée St. E 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 132.
