White · Marlborough · New Zealand
Greywacke Wild Sauvignon
Scored from 3,101 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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Tasting profile
A bold, complex Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc with ripe berry fruit, citrus zest of lemon, lime and grapefruit, and a savory edge of oak, vanilla, butter and minerality. Reviewers describe it as crisp and refreshing yet textured and long, with depth and character that sets it apart from typical NZ Sauvignon Blanc.
Synthesized from 3,101Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Just love this wine, it''s a little savoury/funky up front but then opens out into lemon/lime zest and mineral notes. Long, complex and textured.. Brilliant wine.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Fermented entirely with naturally occurring yeast, this is an alternative style of sauvignon blanc that is both intricate and textural. An inviting combination of fragrant patisserie-like aromas and fresh herbs – the sweet scent of lemon meringue and apricot friand seems to meld with a tarragon-like herbal quality and a hint of smokiness.
Greywacke Wild Sauvignon is a white from Marlborough, New Zealand. It is made from Sauvignon Blanc. At $37.08 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band.
1,063 other whites from New Zealand form the cohort it is ranked inside. 3,101 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 3,149 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 Greywacke Wild Sauvignon 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 3,101.
