Red · California · United States
The Pinot Project Pinot Noir
Scored from 2,466 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
“So hard to find a Pinot under $20 that isn't prissy. Such a delicate grape that has complexity and structure to it. Didn't knock my socks off but it was still great! Good summer Sipper with family and friends! Good representation of Californis pinots. Ripe black cherries and red raspberries, wild flowers and Herbs de Provence on the nose. Notes are jammy ripe full fruit, earthy asian spices, cedat and hints of citrus on the finish. Still a decent wine and I probably will buy again.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The garnet red in color and features pure Pinot aromas and flavors black cherries kissed by oak and complemented by just the right amount of Asian spices and a hint of cedar. Medium-full in body with silky tannins, this red wine gem is nicely balanced with a long finish. It pairs beautifully with grilled salmon, roast pork, grilled chicken and pastas
The Pinot Project Pinot Noir is a red from California, the United States. At $11.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the under $15 band.
2,466 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 2,552 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 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 Pinot Project 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 2,466.
