Red · Ontario · Canada
Wayne Gretzky Estates No. 99 Baco Noir
Scored from 508 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Canada (38 wines).
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What reviewers say
“6 years did this wine a solid! Was truly expecting wet newspaper or worse! Has a wonderful nose to it with Smokey, blackberry and black cherry notes. Light tannins and acidity lend a smooth and grapey wine that hits you up front. The middle experience is playful and light. The back end is a little more. It lingers like a good friend at the end of a party. Reminds me of a subtle Pinot Noir, but is much lighter and fruitier. Make the trip! Niagara on the lake is awesome! Go to Gretsky’s! 🍇💥🍷😎”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Aromas of black cherry, blackcurrant and spice, with herbal and smoky notes; dry and medium-bodied, with lively acidity and low tannins; flavours of tangy berry fruit, with spicy and brambly notes leading to a medium-length finish.
From Ontario in Canada, Wayne Gretzky Estates No. 99 Baco Noir is a red.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 37 other reds from Canada, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 508 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 530 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 Wayne Gretzky Estates No. 99 Baco 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 · Canada (38 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 508.
