Red · Santa Lucia Highlands · United States
Kosta Browne Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir
Scored from 349 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 fleshy, fruit-forward Pinot leading with orange peel and zest alongside red and black cherry, with hints of strawberry compote, rhubarb, and warm spice notes of allspice and nutmeg. Supple tannins frame a smooth, well-structured palate that carries a long, wonderful finish built to improve with age.
Synthesized from 349Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“This wine displays deep notes of orange peel, cherries, allspice, nutmeg and five-spice with a hint of rhubarb and strawberry compote. The finish gains momentum and carries the flavors a long way.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The Monterey Bay keeps Santa Lucia Highlands cool year-round, letting the fruit take its time to achieve perfect ripeness. In turn, the wine is complex, yet approachable with flavors of wild raspberry, fresh rhubarb, and subtle baking spice.
Kosta Browne Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir is a red from Santa Lucia Highlands, the United States. At $65.00 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. 349 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 364 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Kosta Browne Santa Lucia Highlands 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 349.
