Red · Central Otago · New Zealand
Pyramid Valley Vineyards Central Otago Pinot Noir
Scored from 241 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · New Zealand (238 wines).
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What reviewers say
“2018 was a warmer year in 🇳🇿 10% whole bunch press, fermented in oak/stainless steel, matured in barrel (25% new oak) for 10 months! Blind might have called this as Oregon!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Central Otago in New Zealand, Pyramid Valley Vineyards Central Otago Pinot Noir is a red.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 237 other reds from New Zealand, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 241 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 242 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Pyramid Valley Vineyards Central Otago 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 · New Zealand (238 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 241.
