Red · Sta. Rita Hills · Estados Unidos
Kosta Browne Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir
Scored from 392 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Estados Unidos (10 wines).
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Tasting profile
Bright and fruit-forward, with abundant red cherry and strawberry layered against currants, vanilla, licorice and a touch of chocolate spice. Medium-bodied and balanced, showing soft tannins, healthy acidity and a long, clean finish.
Synthesized from 392Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Wow wow wow. Fruit explosion with enough acid and (subtle suggestion of) tannin to balance it out. Abundant bright fresh cherry, currants, vanilla. Perfect.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The slow, cool ripening season in Sta. Rita Hills creates a brilliant and subtle wine. Nuanced, bright acidity is followed by hints of pomegranate, lush cranberry, and fresh basil. Seamless tannins lead into a gentle finish.
Kosta Browne Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir is a red from Sta. Rita Hills, the United States. At $109 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 392 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 403 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 9 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Sta. Rita Hills 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 · Estados Unidos (10 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 392.
