Red · Sonoma Coast · United States
Kosta Browne Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir
Scored from 1,942 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 silky, full-bodied Pinot Noir with notes of bing cherry, cola, earth, sassafras and nutmeg, layered with red berries, dried orange, cranberry and a touch of cinnamon. Rich, smooth and vibrant on the nose with a long, complex finish that keeps evolving on the palate.
Synthesized from 1,942Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“It was a ruby color with a nose of red berries. Full bodied with red fruit, mineral and a long finish; it was rich and smooth—almost cabernet like in texture.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Kosta Browne Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir is an American red from Sonoma Coast.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,942 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,004 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 Kosta Browne Sonoma Coast 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 1,942.
