Red · Lodi · United States
Specialyst Zinfandel
Scored from 565 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
“Lunch at Lin’eau. Going over from Greece to the US with the somm here and this nice Zinf he offered to try! Sweet yammie nose with ripe black fruit of ripe plums, cherries, brambles all wrapped up in four fruit preserves with whiffs of dried fruits like figs & raisins all framed in sandal wood with caramel touch. Less bold on the palate, in fact it’s quite vibrant with good red cherry acids adding freshness around the black fruit power while ending quite long with a nice herbal bitter.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Lodi in the United States, Specialyst Zinfandel is a red. It sits in the under $15 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $12.97.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 565 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 574 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Specialyst 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 565.
