White · California · United States
Kendall-Jackson Grand Reserve Chardonnay
Scored from 2,409 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
“Crystal golden yellow in colour, with savoury aromas of citrus, Meyer lemon, tropical fruits, honey, and toast. On the palate, notes of yellow apple, pineapple, lychee, and toast shine through.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Elegant and tropical with hints of lemon and other citrus fruits. Notes of Fuji apple, lushly layered with an enchanting creamy texture and a finish that lingers. Lush tropical fruit intertwines with lemon, lime and floral notes. Elegantly layered, this wine exhibits a rich texture and firm backbone with a hint of vanilla and spice to round out the long finish.
From California in the United States, Kendall-Jackson Grand Reserve Chardonnay is a white. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $18.48.
2,310 other whites from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 2,409 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,489 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 Kendall-Jackson Grand Reserve 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 2,409.
