White · Los Carneros · United States
HDV Chardonnay (Hyde Vineyard)
Scored from 974 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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Tasting profile
Straw-gold in color with a complex nose of white flowers, ripe stone fruit, honeysuckle, citrus, and toasty buttery notes from malolactic. Full-bodied and rich with a thick mouthfeel, balanced by good acidity and a mineral, lemon-peel finish - a Burgundian-style California Chardonnay.
Synthesized from 974Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Buttery, yeast and citrus with good acid. A great example of mellow MLF. Perfect for drinking just because :)”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Los Carneros in the United States, HDV Chardonnay (Hyde Vineyard) is a white.
974 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 997 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 2,310 other whites from the United States 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 HDV Chardonnay (Hyde Vineyard) 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 974.
