White · サンタマリア・バレー · アメリカ合衆国
Au Bon Climat Chardonnay Nuits-Blanches au Bouge
Scored from 747 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · アメリカ合衆国 (115 wines).
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Tasting profile
A Burgundian-style California Chardonnay with balanced oak, crisp acidity, minerals, and tree fruit, fully malolactic yet kept in check by lively acidity. Reviewers describe it as remarkably full and structured for a white, drinking beautifully now with room to develop further.
Synthesized from 747Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“This wine has undergone full malolactic fermentation; however, with the amount of acidity its negated. In perfect balance. Would be fine to age but good luck waiting to open.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From サンタマリア・バレー in the United States, Au Bon Climat Chardonnay Nuits-Blanches au Bouge is a white.
747 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 754 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 115 American whites.
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 Au Bon Climat Chardonnay Nuits-Blanches au Bouge 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 · アメリカ合衆国 (115 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 747.
