Sparkling · Kent · United Kingdom
Chapel Down Grand Reserve
Scored from 86 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · United Kingdom (193 wines).
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Tasting profile
Chapel Down Grand Reserve shows a pale gold pour with fine, persistent bubbles and a nose led by green apple, brioche and fresh bread yeast. The palate is full-bodied and rich, layering baked apple, citrus and toasty bakery notes into a long, opulent finish reviewers repeatedly compare to Champagne.
Synthesized from 86Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Occhio: Paglierino scarico, Bolla fine e persistente. Naso: Mela verde, Pan brioche, Fieno. Bocca: Burro, lievito, affumicato, pieno ed avvolgente con una nota lunga. W LA REGINA!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Kent in the United Kingdom, Chapel Down Grand Reserve is a sparkling wine.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 192 other sparkling wines from the United Kingdom, not against the corpus as a whole. 86 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 86 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Chapel Down Grand Reserve 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 Sparkling · United Kingdom (193 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 86.
Cohort: Sparkling · United Kingdom
