White · Mendoza · Argentina
Achaval-Ferrer Quimera Blanco
Scored from 128 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Argentina (398 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Tried at James Suckling’s Great Wines World NYC 2024. Even though Achaval Ferrer is less than 30 years old, some of their vines are more than a 110 years old. The Estate has 54 hectares in three main vineyards in Mendoza: Altamira, Bella Vista and Mirador. This wine is a blend of Chardonnay, Sémillon, Viognier and Sauvignon Blanc from Valle de Uco, at an altitude of 1,100 meters. Second time trying this producer. Good and enjoyable wine. Tasting notes below: citrus ; apple ; peach”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Chardonnay, Semillon, Viognier & Sauvignon Blanc
From Mendoza in Argentina, Achaval-Ferrer Quimera Blanco is a white. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $40.00, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band. It blends Viognier, Chardonnay, Semillion and Sauvignon Blanc.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 397 other whites from Argentina, not against the corpus as a whole. 128 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 128 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 Achaval-Ferrer Quimera Blanco 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 White · Argentina (398 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 128.
