White · Nevşehir Province · Turkey
Kavaklıdere Çankaya
Scored from 1,000 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Turkey (7 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Time to review this, as it's been a complete surprise. This wine is a common house white in a country where most prefer beer or raki. In the past I've assumed it will be rubbish. It's not. This 2020 vintage is a blend of 3 native grapes - Emir, Narince and Sultaniye.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Bright yellow. Pronounced with citrus and white fruit aromas. Delicious with persistent fruit flavors, well balanced with its moderate acidity; concentrated.
Kavaklıdere Çankaya is a Turkish white from Nevşehir Province. At $34.95 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band. The grape is Narince.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,000 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,023 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 7 Turkish whites.
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 Kavaklıdere Çankaya 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 · Turkey (7 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 1,000.
