White · Washington · United States
Columbia Crest Grand Estates Chardonnay
Scored from 2,253 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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What reviewers say
“DU WIRST MIR IMMER VERTRAUTER... - je öfter du da bist, umso mehr mag ich dich... ✍ Restzucker: 4,7 g/l Gesamtsäure 5,8 g/l 👁 mittleres Goldgelb 👃 leichte Brioche Aromen 💋 Chardonnay Schmelz von geringer bis mittlerer Intensität mit gleichzeitiger ausgewogener Frische. Feine Zitrusnoten. Süße und Säure meisterlich ausbalanciert. 👉 hervorragendes PGV. Chardonnay auf einem feinen Niveau. Zum Dahinschmelzen und Wegtrinken. Support your local dealer: Jacques Weindepot, Köln-Salierring”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Columbia Crest’s 2,500 acres of estate vineyards are some of the best in Washington. With only six to eight inches of annual rainfall, water to the Columbia Crest vineyards is supplied by drip irrigation, allowing control over the timing and quantity of water delivered to the vines and yielding grapes with well-balanced characteristics. In addition to the winemaking team's commitment to quality, Columbia Crest is also dedicated to producing approachable wines that people will enjoy. Our heritage of winemaking excellence is applied to every bottle—we strive to produce wines that are balanced, rich in flavor, and surpass expectations.
From Washington in the United States, Columbia Crest Grand Estates Chardonnay is a white.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 2,311 American whites. The calibrated figure is built from 2,253 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,328 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 Columbia Crest Grand Estates 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 2,253.
