Red · Sonoma County · United States
Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Merlot
Scored from 1,792 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
“A fruity and mellow Bordeaux style Merlot 96%, CF 2%, CS 1%, PV 1% blend from Sonoma County, which offers black cherry, black currant, dried red fruit aromas backed by polished tannin and lively acidity with hints of vanilla and licorice finish.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Intricate layers of black cherry, plum, currant, and wild berry mingle with a hint of spice. The soft, delicate tannins of this Bordeaux varietal carry these aromas and flavors to a long lingering finish
Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Merlot is a red from Sonoma County, the United States. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $20.99.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,792 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,876 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve 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 1,792.
