Red · California · United States
Orin Swift Eight Years In The Desert
Scored from 8,725 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, fruit-forward Zinfandel blend with thick, ripe black cherry and blackberry up front, supported by leather, tobacco, black pepper, and earthy coffee notes. Big and complex enough to be mistaken for a Cab, it drinks tight at first and rewards 20-30 minutes of decanting to show its smooth, sophisticated punch.
Synthesized from 8,725Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“This is a Zin? So big and complex. Could be easily mistaken for a Cab! Would love to have this after a few more years in the cellar.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Orin Swift Eight Years In The Desert is an American red from California. At $38.41 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band. The grape is Zinfandel.
The calibrated figure is built from 8,725 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 8,992 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Orin Swift Eight Years In The Desert 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 8,725.
