Red · Russian River Valley · United States
Rodney Strong Pinot Noir
Scored from 153 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
“Some fantastic bouquet on the nose...cherry and leather. Really nice. While drinking solo it tasted good but not compelling. But as it worked into our pork meal it really opened up. It was lighter like many pinots but had great tannins and acidity. We aerated and then slightly chilled. Very enjoyable and solid balance, especially for a pinot. We had a different label, but was Rodney Strong Vineyards 2016 RRV Pinot.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Rodney Strong Pinot Noir is an American red from Russian River Valley. At $18.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 153 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 158 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds.
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 Rodney Strong 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 153.
