Red · Anderson Valley · United States
Walt Blue Jay Pinot Noir
Scored from 1,032 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
“Nice red/purple color with nose of vanilla, plum, red fruit, and earthy - maybe tobacco. Hits you with some crisp acids that make sense for the age but then the round but beautiful tannins are like, “Hey, d-bag!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This wine is deep garnet in color with fresh aromatics of hibiscus, sassafras, and smoked paprika. The palate is dense and rich, with roasted stem inclusion bringing intensity and length. Concentrated flavors of pomegranate, wild blueberry, and allspice bring this wine to a delicious and distinctive finish.
From Anderson Valley in the United States, Walt Blue Jay Pinot Noir is a red. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $44.99.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. 1,032 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 1,070 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Walt Blue Jay 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 1,032.
