White · Sonoma Mountain · United States
Kistler McCrea Vineyard Chardonnay
Scored from 574 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
An aromatic, oak-influenced Chardonnay with floral, citrus, stone-fruit and mineral notes alongside almond and honeysuckle, leaning into the classic Kistler butter and oak. The palate is creamy and full-bodied with pear, peach and lemon, finishing long, spicy and minerally.
Synthesized from 574Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Fantastisk! På høyde med gode hvite burgundere. Mineraler, østers, sitrus og mandel på duft. Noe fethet, pære, mineraler og lang peroleumsfinish.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Kistler McCrea Vineyard Chardonnay is a white from Sonoma Mountain, the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 574 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 581 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Kistler McCrea Vineyard 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 574.
