White · Napa Valley · United States
Chateau Montelena Chardonnay
Scored from 6,014 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
A smooth, buttery Chardonnay with citrus fruit, pear, and white floral notes layered over toasted oak, caramel, and a touch of cream. Balanced and refreshing with light minerality, it drinks unctuous yet crisp - a benchmark Napa Valley style.
Synthesized from 6,014Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Mineraltoner, lätt krispig i doften. Motsvarar förväntningarna av en utomordentlig Chardonnay från Napa Valley. Köp, min första 5-stjärna som utdelas!!!!!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Napa Valley in the United States, Chateau Montelena Chardonnay is a white.
The calibrated figure is built from 6,014 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 6,124 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 2,311 American whites.
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 Chateau Montelena 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 6,014.
