Red · Paso Robles · United States
J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines Estates South Ridge Syrah
Scored from 1,341 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
“Cali Syrah going perfectly well with pizza 🍕 Has a splash of other varietals. N: med+ intensity. Violet, sharp blackberry & dark fruit, slightly earthy but mostly heady & lifted. P: dry. Full body, med+ acidity, ripe plush tannins.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Varietal aromas of black tea and blueberry are lifted by barrel aging on the lees in a blend of American and French oak barrels. Smoky notes and vanilla are evident in this lean structured and spicy vintage of Syrah. Black tea and blueberry aromas with a spicy finish.
J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines Estates South Ridge Syrah is a red from Paso Robles, the United States, made from Shiraz Syrah. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $17.95.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. The calibrated figure is built from 1,341 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,394 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 J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines Estates South Ridge Syrah 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 1,341.
