Is Pinot Noir actually good?

Pinot Noir sits in the 45.1% percentile against every wine we rank, meaning it scores above 45.1% of them.

How does Pinot Noir compare to similar wines?

Within Red · New Zealand, Pinot Noir lands in the 35.4% 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 Pinot Noir's score based on?

12 calibrated reviewers stand behind Pinot Noir's score.

Sheild Pinot Noir

global pct

45.1

Red · Nelson · New Zealand

Sheild Pinot Noir

Name: Sheild Pinot Noir
Brand: Sheild

Scored from 12 calibrated Vivino reviewers. Cohort: Red · New Zealand (238 wines).

45.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 69,234 ranked wines

35.4%

In-cohort percentile

Red · New Zealand · 238 wines

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AI-adjusted percentile

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Is Pinot Noir a good wine?

Summary

From Nelson in New Zealand, Sheild Pinot Noir is a red.

Only 12 of its Vivino reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 12 reviewers with at least two ratings feeds the raw-average track. 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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