Red · California · United States
Locations CA (California)
Scored from 1,972 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
“Hadn’t see the Locations series in a while so when I spied this red blend on the shelf, it immediately went in the cart! Deep purple hues in the glass with dark fruit, dried herbs and toasted oak on the nose.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Densely purple hued, the wine reveals pleasing aromas of wild flowers, dark berry fruits, plum, dried herbs, and subtle, toasty oak. The entry is profoundly rich with exquisite mineral notes. Flavors of black cherry, dark chocolate, roasted coffee, liquorice, and boysenberry form an intense core. Soft and even tannins provide a pure finish that is highly expressive and everlasting.
From California in the United States, Locations CA (California) is a red. It is made from Gruner Veltliner. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $17.24.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,155 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. 1,972 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 2,036 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Locations CA (California) 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 1,972.
