White · Santa Barbara County · United States
Chanin Los Alamos Vineyard Chardonnay
Scored from 305 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · United States (2,311 wines).
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Tasting profile
Reviewers describe a creamy, well-balanced Chardonnay with buttery apple, citrus, pear, and baked brioche notes, layered with toasted oak, baking spice, and a hint of tropical passion fruit. It drinks dry with high acid and a medium-plus, smooth finish that several tasters call its standout feature.
Synthesized from 305Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“One of the most interesting finishes in a Pinot Noir similar in complexity to Kings Estate, but a more mature oily quality”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Chanin Los Alamos Vineyard Chardonnay is an American white from Santa Barbara County.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 2,311 American whites. The calibrated figure is built from 305 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 308 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 Chanin Los Alamos Vineyard 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 · United States (2,311 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 305.
