Red · South Eastern Australia · Australia
Lindeman's Bin 40 Merlot
Scored from 2,142 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Australia (517 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Over the past week, ‘First - and current wife’ played host to her many sisters who arrived from different countries and also different US states. Family members, multiple friends and multiple unknown ‘others’ helped us have multiple parties over the ‘Thanksgiving period’!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This Merlot displays varietal aromas of cassis and liquorice. The palate is fleshy and mouth filling with flavours of plum, sweet spice and creamy vanillin oak.
Lindeman's Bin 40 Merlot is an Australian red from South Eastern Australia.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 516 other reds from Australia, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 2,142 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,234 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 Lindeman's Bin 40 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 · Australia (517 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 2,142.
