Red · Russian River Valley · United States
Sonoma-Cutrer Pinot Noir
Scored from 1,384 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
“Office party, wine 2: appealing, velvety, decent, jammy/fruity RRV PN with decent oak influence (11months in new and used oak). Deep crimson, scarlet rim.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The first impression starts in the nose with deep, dark fruit aromas of blackberry, dark raspberry, and black cherries, followed by an earthy, forest floor complexity and accented with hints of cola, tobacco, licorice, and baking spices. Classic red fruit flavors of Bing cherry and wild strawberry greet the palate, followed by barrel spice and dark chocolate.
Sonoma-Cutrer Pinot Noir is an American red from Russian River Valley. At $29.92 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,384 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,439 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 Sonoma-Cutrer 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 1,384.
