Red · Columbia Valley · United States
Long Shadows Chester Kidder
Scored from 528 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 rich, smooth red blend showing warm red and dark berry fruit layered with vanilla, coffee, and chocolate notes, carried by muscular tannins and bright acidity into a dry, flavor-packed finish. Reviewers consistently call it deeply balanced and impressively crafted, a special-occasion bottle.
Synthesized from 528Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Amazingly wonderful rich red! Very deep dark purple. Strong berry aromas. Really good tannins and acidity. Great balance. Definitely worth it.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Long Shadows Chester Kidder is an American red from Columbia Valley.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds. The calibrated figure is built from 528 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 534 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 Long Shadows Chester Kidder 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 528.
