White · North Coast · United States
Ghost Pines Chardonnay
Scored from 1,097 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
“Giallo paglierino intenso, riflessi dorati, al naso ricco con sentori che coprono tutte le famiglie dai fiori bianchi e gialli alla frutta matura, cedro, mela gialla, pera, albicocca, pesca, ananas, carambola al terziaro come legno, burro, vaniglia, miele, pasticceria, noce mosca…”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Flavours of baked apple, pear and lemon cream, accented by an elegant finish of sweet vanilla. To create a buttery texture and deep, layered flavours, this wine underwent sur lie ageing and malolactic fermentation.
Ghost Pines Chardonnay is a white from North Coast, the United States.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 2,310 other whites from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 1,097 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,141 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 Ghost Pines 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 1,097.
