Red · Mendocino County · United States
The Federalist Bourbon Barrels Aged Red blend
Scored from 532 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
“Bordeaux blend in american style: Cabernet Sauvignon & Merlot, aged for 6 months in Americans oak followed by another 6 months in bourbon barrels! Medium + bodied, burgundy color, smell of overripe red cherry, raspberry, coca-cola, dark spices. Rich taste, full of notes of jam cherry, raspberry, spices, caramel, vanilla, tobacco wood from the bourbon barrels, low acidity, soft tannins, 15% alcohol, and a long, long finish full of caramel. Big fan of this winery!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Good entrance filling the mouth with bright fruit and spiciness. The finish is smoky and smooth making this uniquely complex.
The Federalist Bourbon Barrels Aged Red blend is Merlot grown in Mendocino County, bottled as a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $18.99, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 532 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 547 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 The Federalist Bourbon Barrels Aged Red blend 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 532.
