White · Eola-Amity Hills · Verenigde Staten
Bethel Heights Casteel Estate Chardonnay
Scored from 57 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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What reviewers say
“Absolutely a 10/10 Chardonnay. Smells very buttery, very creamy, 45% new oak, 12 months on lees no stirring. Then moved to stainless steel tanks for 4 months. Zesty lemon. Full malolactic fermentation”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Eola-Amity Hills in the United States, Bethel Heights Casteel Estate Chardonnay is a white.
57 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 58 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 25 other whites from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Bethel Heights Casteel Estate Chardonnay 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 57.
