Red · Napa Valley · United States
The Crane Assembly Disciples
Scored from 1,170 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 full-bodied, fruit-forward Napa Zinfandel with big oak, lush complexity, and a high ABV that pairs well with a hearty steak. Firm tannins suggest it needs ample air or a few years of cellaring, but the color, flavor, and finish already deliver real pleasure for the price.
Synthesized from 1,170Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“this wine needs to breathe a lot. even so, i made a mistake by opening this too early. tannins need to soften, but incredible nonetheless.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The Crane Assembly Disciples is an American red from Napa Valley.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,170 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,199 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 The Crane Assembly Disciples 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 1,170.
