Sparkling · Columbia Valley · United States
Domaine Ste. Michelle Brut
Scored from 1,783 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · United States (455 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Medium, butter-y gold color with striking aromas, that of an apple orchard. Delicate floral notes pair with sweet and crisp apple flavors and aroma, really give the experience of walking through an orchard.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Winemaker Paula Eakin crafts the wines in the traditional méthode champenoise style. Premium grapes are sourced from vineyards in Washington state’s Columbia Valley. “Eastern Washington’s dry, warm climate and cool night time temperatures produce balanced flavorful grapes with crisp acidity, which is critical for quality sparkling wine,” says Eakin. “Our growing conditions and northerly latitude produce sparkling wines with delicate aromatics and flavors.” Predominantly a blend of Chardonnay, the Brut features delicate flavors of green apple and citrus with vibrant acidity. The Brut Rosé is a medium-dry wine made of Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, with soft impressions of ripe strawberries, apple and citrus. The Extra Dry is a slightly sweeter style with delicate aromas of orange and lemon zest revealing flavors of apples and pears.
Domaine Ste. Michelle Brut is an American sparkling wine from Columbia Valley. At $15.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
454 other sparkling wines from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. 1,783 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 1,820 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 Domaine Ste. Michelle Brut 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 States (455 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 1,783.
Cohort: Sparkling · United States
