White · Monterey County · Verenigde Staten
Bernardus Chardonnay Monterey County
Scored from 3,241 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Verenigde Staten (26 wines).
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Tasting profile
A full, rich Chardonnay marked by buttery character and prominent oak, with vanilla and wood notes carrying through to the finish. Reviewers describe it as round, weighty, and a touch opulent, with the alcohol well integrated.
Synthesized from 3,241Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“T was even zoeken naar de foto, maar wat een top wijn was dit zeg. Dikke vette Chardonnay. Alleen drinken nadat je al andere wijnen hebt gedronken”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Bernardus Chardonnay Monterey County is an American white from Monterey County.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 26 American whites. The calibrated figure is built from 3,241 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,338 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 Bernardus Chardonnay Monterey County 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 · Verenigde Staten (26 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 3,241.
