Red · Sta. Rita Hills · United States
Sanford Founders' Vines Pinot Noir
Scored from 44 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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Tasting profile
A bright, fruit-forward Pinot Noir leaning on cherry, raspberry, blueberry, and tart plum, lifted by subtle earth and campfire smoke. Reviewers describe it as clean and balanced with a dry, long finish.
Synthesized from 44Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“One of the best sparkling wines in California. Hits all the notes toasted brioche nectarines,pears hint of citrus and honey. Great bubbles 🥂Cheers”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Sta. Rita Hills in the United States, Sanford Founders' Vines Pinot Noir is a red.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,155 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. 44 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 46 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 Sanford Founders' Vines 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 44.
