White · Napa Valley · United States
Grgich Hills Chardonnay
Scored from 2,464 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
“An ecclectic mix of wines on a bank holiday Monday with friends Another Napa Chardonnay that I like! This is definitely influenced by the cooler coastal climate and fogs 10 months in French oak, 40% new, 60% neutral Honeysuckle and citrus on the nose.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
As always, we did not allow the Chardonnay to undergo malolactic fermentation and our Biodynamic farming created a wine that is alive with delicious acidity. The relatively cool vintage yielded a beautifully balanced Chardonnay with notes of lemon zest, flowers and honey with a hint of crushed stones.
Grgich Hills Chardonnay is a white from Napa Valley, the United States. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $47.83.
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 2,464 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,527 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 Grgich Hills 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 2,464.
