White · Stellenbosch · Afrique du Sud
Delaire Graff Terraced Block Chardonnay
Scored from 181 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Afrique du Sud (163 wines).
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Tasting profile
A rich, full-bodied Stellenbosch Chardonnay that balances power with finesse, layering vanilla, butter and light oak over peach, citrus peel and flinty minerality. The oak is well integrated, leading to a creamy finish that reviewers repeatedly call one of the best Chardonnays they have tasted.
Synthesized from 181Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“A delicious expression of Terroir, flinty minerals, lime peel, pomelos. The oak is well integrated showing excellent winemaking and respect for grapes.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Delaire Graff Terraced Block Chardonnay is a white from Stellenbosch, South Africa.
162 other whites from South Africa form the cohort it is ranked inside. 181 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 183 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 Delaire Graff Terraced Block 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 · Afrique du Sud (163 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 181.
