Red · Californie · États-Unis
Orin Swift Machete
Scored from 6,879 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · États-Unis (9 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Another hit! Just a yummy fruit explosion right out if the park.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Aromas of crème de cassis, boysenberry, and ripe cherries are complemented by a soft minerality and hints of dark chocolate. The entry is smooth with dark plums and a charred meatiness that creates a velvety texture that lingers.
From Californie in the United States, Orin Swift Machete is a red. It is made from Petite Sirah. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $47.99, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 8 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. 6,879 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 7,115 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 Orin Swift Machete 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 · États-Unis (9 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 6,879.
