White · Greyton · Afrique du Sud
Lismore Reserve Chardonnay
Scored from 228 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Afrique du Sud (163 wines).
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What reviewers say
“I tried the 2017 Reserve Chardonnay at Lismore Wine Estate from the barrel - a stunning beauty, so intense aromas! Peter, ZURICH”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Lismore Reserve Chardonnay is a South African white from Greyton.
228 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 231 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 163 South African 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 Lismore 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 · Afrique du Sud (163 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 228.
