Red · California · United States
Marietta Old Vine Red (OVR)
Scored from 2,826 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
“Previously reviewed Lot 73, this one is Lot 74. This wine is in crosshairs in part because Erin Brooks (WA) rated Lot 73 at 95, and thus one at 93. It’s a US$ 12 wine. It’s a very nice wine—aromas of cherry, ripe blackberry, on top of a nice earthy and spicy foundation.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ripe, juicy fruit and a lush mouth feel are the hallmarks of Old Vine Red, with peppery spice and dusty earth adding an extra level of richness. Moderate but focused tannins ensure this blend will stand up to almost any food.
From California in the United States, Marietta Old Vine Red (OVR) is a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $16.95, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band. It is made from Zinfandel.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,155 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. 2,826 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 2,927 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 Marietta Old Vine Red (OVR) 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 2,826.
