White · Mendoza · Argentina
Catena Chardonnay
Scored from 5,629 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
“Catena's High Mountain Vines Chardonnay is sourced from three vineyard sites, ranging from 3,100-4,757' in altitude, hence the name.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Catena Chardonnay shows an intense greenish yellow color. The aromas show ripe pineapple and banana fruit flavors with notes of white stone fruits and hints of sweet spices. The mouthfeel is full yet clean, with fresh, crisp acidity.
From Mendoza in Argentina, Catena Chardonnay is a white. At $13.50 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the under $15 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 5,629 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 5,775 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 397 other whites from Argentina, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Catena 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 · 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 5,629.
