Red · California · United States
Sand Point Zinfandel
Scored from 108 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
“Medium ruby purple in color with an aromatic nose of red and black fruit, oak spice, cherry tobacco, menthol. Tastes of red and black cherry, blackberry, black plums, black fruit compote. Notes of dried sage, brown oak spices, tobacco. Well balanced, chewy tannins. Medium in body with a fairly lengthy finish. Heart warming 15% ABV. This is a quality Zinfandel at this price point. Excellent meaty pizza pairing or shrimp and chicken jambalaya.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Sand Point Zinfandel is a red from California, the United States. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $18.95, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 108 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 108 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Sand Point Zinfandel 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 108.
