Red · California · United States
Orin Swift Slander Pinot Noir
Scored from 1,962 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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What reviewers say
“I love Orin Swift and this one was no exception. I don’t really enjoy Pinot Noir and not sure what all the fuss is about but this certainly ticked the boxes for me. It’s probably not the typical style that a purist would go for but I don’t really care what they think.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Vivid ruby red in color, the wine is perfumed with intriguing aromas of rose petal, bitter cherry, mineral notes, and a hint of sweet spice. Opening with verve and energy, the palate is treated to intense red and black fruit flavors with a generous core of stewed raspberry, cola, and forest floor. The tannins are chewy and lush yet held in balance with a bright acidic note that fleshes out for a lengthy finish.
Orin Swift Slander Pinot Noir is a red from California, the United States. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $44.00.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. 1,962 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 2,005 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 Slander 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 · 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 1,962.
