Red · California · United States
Leese-Fitch Pinot Noir
Scored from 1,659 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
“This 2015, without hesitation (see my previous rating for the 2014), merits a 4 stars. Robe is light ruby with a whitish pink rim. It has tears that are regularly spaced and slow.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Dark garnet in colour. It smells of ripe fruit from the orchard, sweet plum, raspberry cobbler, Bing cherry, with vanilla whipped cream and just a hint of apricot. The flavours start ripe with cherry preserves, summer plum, fresh strawberry pie, brioche, and finish with earthy notes, portobello mushroom, clove spice, and dried cranberry.
From California in the United States, Leese-Fitch Pinot Noir is a red. It sits in the under $15 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $11.95.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. The calibrated figure is built from 1,659 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,741 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 Leese-Fitch 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 1,659.
