Fortified · Livermore Valley · United States
Wente Family Vineyards Petite Sirah Port (Small Lot)
Scored from 21 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · United States (61 wines).
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Tasting profile
A smooth, subtly sweet port with rich chocolate and caramel notes alongside ripe blackberry and other fruit flavors, lifted by a touch of added brandy. Reviewers describe it as balanced rather than cloying, making it an inviting dessert wine for cozy, cold-weather sipping.
Synthesized from 21Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Lovely subtle port. Simply wonderful from this great vineyard. Just wish I lived in livermore valley.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Livermore Valley in the United States, Wente Family Vineyards Petite Sirah Port (Small Lot) is a fortified wine.
60 other fortified wines from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 21 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 21 reviewers with at least two ratings 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 Wente Family Vineyards Petite Sirah Port (Small Lot) 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 Fortified · United States (61 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 21.
Cohort: Fortified · United States
