Is Merlot actually good?

Merlot sits in the 14.6% percentile against every wine we rank, meaning it scores above 14.6% of them.

How does Merlot compare to similar wines?

Within Red · New Zealand, Merlot lands in the 11.0% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a wine for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Merlot's score based on?

2,231 calibrated reviewers stand behind Merlot's score.

Oyster Bay Merlot

global pct

14.6

Red · Hawke's Bay · New Zealand

Oyster Bay Merlot

Name: Oyster Bay Merlot
Brand: Oyster Bay

Scored from 2,231 calibrated Vivino reviewers. Cohort: Red · New Zealand (238 wines).

14.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 69,234 ranked wines

11.0%

In-cohort percentile

Red · New Zealand · 238 wines

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AI-adjusted percentile

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Is Merlot a good wine?

Summary

From Hawke's Bay in New Zealand, Oyster Bay Merlot is a red.

The calibrated figure is built from 2,231 of its Vivino reviewers. A broader pool of 2,328 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 237 other reds from New Zealand, not against the corpus as a whole.

Cohort: Red · New Zealand · 238 wines
Calibrated reviewers: none yet
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Red · New Zealand

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