Red · Napa Valley · United States
Merryvale Profile
Scored from 647 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 deep ruby Napa red with an intense, rich nose of dark blackberry, pomegranate, violet, and leather, showing medium to full body with velvety smooth texture and light tannins. The palate carries dark fruit and blueberry alongside licorice and oak, finishing with white pepper, florals, and well-structured persistence.
Synthesized from 647Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“high alcohol content. very rich nose, berries and pomegranate. light tannin. tasted like a good bordeaux but a young one. excellent structure. well textured finish.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A dark, brooding wine with intense aromas of cassis, blackberry, chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon, smoke and cedar. It is very dense in the mouth with ripe, round tannins, and it finishes with lingering notes of black cherry, grilled herbs and violets.
Merryvale Profile is an American red from Napa Valley. The grape is Petit Verdot. At $182 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
The calibrated figure is built from 647 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 670 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Merryvale Profile 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 647.
