Red · Sta. Rita Hills · United States
Melville Estate Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir
Scored from 1,223 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
“92 pts | CA Central Coast 🍇 organic Pinot Noir from the 🇺🇸 Sta. Rita Hills AVA, Santa Barbara County. Medium ruby color. Perfumed nose, pronounced aroma intensity, hibiscus, dried red cherry, cranberry, red currant, rhubarb, baking spices and wet earth.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ruby red in color, fresh fruit aromatics of mandarin orange, black raspberry and grilled watermelon spring from the glass. On the palate, pretty nuances of rose petal, gardenia and oolong tea mingle with herbal notes of sandalwood, star anise, fresh thyme and fennel seed. The mouthfeel is plush and velvety yet finishes with significant persistence and volume.
From Sta. Rita Hills in the United States, Melville Estate Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir is a red. At $36.79 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band.
1,223 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 1,265 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,155 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Melville Estate Sta. Rita Hills 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 1,223.
