All 187 producers in the appellation, scored 0–100 and ranked in one list. No sponsored slots, no featured tier — sort it yourself and check our work.
The order is the order.
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This chart is interactive with JavaScript enabled — sweeping it reads any producer without leaving the page. Every number in it is also written out in the ranked table, which needs no script.
Each vessel is one winery, filled to its Crux Score — taller is better, and the whole appellation is drawn to the same 70–100 scale. Sweep it to read any of them; click a vessel to lock it, click again to open the review. Everything here is also in the table, if you would rather read than sweep.
The Mourvèdre the rest of Santa Margarita Ranch is quietly measuring itself against, let down only by an 81 for transparency.
Ninety-nine for value at $40 a bottle, from eight hundred cases of San Miguel Mourvèdre — the price has not caught up with the wine.
Walk in, pay fifteen dollars, and drink Mourvèdre from a house that scores 98 for both its room and its candour.
A Crux Score is Cruxvine's 0–100 rating for a whole producer, not a single bottle. It weights five published sub-scores: wine quality, consistency across vintages, the tasting room, value for price, and transparency. In Paso Robles the scores run 75–96 and the median is 85.
No. 3 producers pay $149 a month for a claimed listing and every one of them is named on the customer list. Their scores are 89, 86, 84 — none is in the top ten; the highest-ranked of them sits at =37. Tasters cannot see billing status and the billing and scoring datasets have no join path.
187 producers in the Paso Robles AVA, across all 11 sub-districts. Every producer in the appellation is included — there is no shortlist and no sponsored placement.
The whole appellation is scored, so the list cannot be a favour to anyone — there is no shortlist to be left off. All 187, ranked.
Yes. Pour size, staff knowledge, reservation friction and what it costs to sit down are their own sub-score, at 15% of the total. You are buying an afternoon, not only a bottle.
3 producers pay $149 a month for a claimed listing, and every one of them is named. Here they are, with their scores — you can check for yourself whether paying moved anything.
Weights, sample sizes, what caps a score and how ties are handled. Read the method.