Red · Central Coast · United States
Sterling Vineyards Vintner's Collection Meritage
Scored from 1,941 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
“Almoço, meio da tarde, pausa pro descanso; este🍷no App Total Wine tem 4,4⭐️/média, não vi nenhuma avaliação <de 5⭐️ Mínimo que posso dar é 4,5⭐️, esse Blend de Tintas possui um excelente custo benefício, aromas e sabores intensos de geléia de amora, cereja preta, carvalho, bauni…”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has intensity of fruit begins on the nose, with vivid cherry, plum and berry aromas. Very fruity with bright flavors and with a little cherry and apricot. Tannins are mild, though not silky.
Sterling Vineyards Vintner's Collection Meritage is an American red from Central Coast. The blend is Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Merlot.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,941 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,024 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 Sterling Vineyards Vintner's Collection Meritage 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 1,941.
