Red · Napa Valley · United States
Orin Swift Papillon
Scored from 7,877 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 Bordeaux-style blend with opulent Napa fruit, layering currant, plum, and blackberry over mocha, espresso, oak, and a hint of anise or licorice. Deep in color and silky on the palate, with thick berries and leather giving way to a long, smooth finish that pairs beautifully with a rich steak.
Synthesized from 7,877Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Opens with a huge blast of currant and plum. Followed by lush blackberry, mocha, and anise. Silky in the mouth with an amazingly long palate pleasing finish. Superb offering worth finding.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Bright, ruby red in complexion with a lively perfume of crushed boysenberry, spring flowers, crème de cassis, and a hint of toast. Lush flavors of blackberry tart and ripe plum lead to a juicy mid-palate mix of currant, mocha and dark chocolate. Well-integrated, polished tannins are present on the finish, which linger effortlessly with just the right amount of power and intensity.
From Napa Valley in the United States, Orin Swift Papillon is a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $57.99, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band. It is made from Cabernet Sauvignon.
7,877 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 8,189 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 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 Orin Swift Papillon 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 7,877.
