Red · Waipara · New Zealand
Mon Cheval Mon Petit Cheval Pinot Noir
Scored from 55 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · New Zealand (238 wines).
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Tasting profile
A generous, fleshy Waipara Pinot Noir with stewed dark fruit, plum and red fruit layered over earthy, savoury notes and hints of caramel, anise and herbaceous spice. The palate is rich and creamy with a lovely mouthfeel, firm but light tannins and bright acidity carrying a long, tasty finish.
Synthesized from 55Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Earty smell, lovely acidity in the beginning, followed by rounded notes of caramel and autumn leaves. Needs a bit of time to open up.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Mon Cheval Mon Petit Cheval Pinot Noir is a red from Waipara, New Zealand.
237 other reds from New Zealand form the cohort it is ranked inside. 55 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 58 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 Mon Cheval Mon Petit Cheval 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 · New Zealand (238 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 55.
