White · Marlborough · New Zealand
Greywacke Sauvignon Blanc
Scored from 5,494 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · New Zealand (1,064 wines).
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What reviewers say
“#10 on Wine Spectator's Wine of the Year list. A good thing this came out at the LCBO before the list dropped or it wouldn't have been so cheap. Lovely aromas of elderflower, honey, butter, hay, & passion fruit.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A musky fusion of sweet scented fruits - nectarines, peaches and nashi pears with a dash of orange zest - intermingled with a floral perfume reminiscent of star jasmine and citrus blossom. A generous palate with citrus and cassis flavours, deliciously ripe and succulent, finishing with that classic Marlborough zing.
Greywacke Sauvignon Blanc is a white from Marlborough, New Zealand. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $26.39.
5,494 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 5,612 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 1,063 other whites from New Zealand form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Greywacke Sauvignon Blanc 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 · New Zealand (1,064 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 5,494.
