Red · Napa Valley · United States
Merryvale Merlot
Scored from 313 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 bold, powerful Napa Merlot with aromas of plum, bramble blackberry, vanilla, dark chocolate, baking spices, and roasted sage, drinking smooth and dry with a broad, lingering finish. Built to age, it stands up to spicy fare and rich steak alike.
Synthesized from 313Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Will age for a decade or more. Drink now through 2018. Aromas of plum and bramble blackberry along with vanilla, dark chocolate, baking spices, and roasted sage. Broad and lingering into the finish.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Merryvale Merlot is a red from Napa Valley, the United States.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 313 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 316 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 Merryvale Merlot 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 313.
