Red · Eola-Amity Hills · United States
Lingua Franca Tongue'n Cheek Pinot Noir
Scored from 85 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 medium-bodied Oregon Pinot Noir with a ruby color and notes of raspberry, cranberry, and blueberry layered with spice, smoky depth, florals, and a touch of leather and chocolate. Smooth and well-balanced with a long, savory finish.
Synthesized from 85Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“This will be a top ten winery of Oregon sooner or later. Larry Stone, David Honig and a couple of French dudes are in charge. Great stuff out of the gate. Two thumbs up for all their wines...”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Red and black fruit and some crystallized preserve notes. The finished wine is round, smooth and gamey, with plum dumpling and spice flavors and dark undercurrents of smoke, tar, flint.
Lingua Franca Tongue'n Cheek Pinot Noir is an American red from Eola-Amity Hills. It sits in the $60–120 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $74.69.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. The calibrated figure is built from 85 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 85 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 Lingua Franca Tongue'n Cheek 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 85.
