White · Marlborough · New Zealand
Marlborough Estate Reserve Sauvignon Blanc
Scored from 999 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · New Zealand (1,064 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Nose of citrus, tropical flowers, green grass, and some creamy qualities. Dry, with high acidity, undercurrents of minerality, and a medium-long tangy finish.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Bright, pale straw-yellow color with slight green hues, very pale on rim. The bouquet is fresh, tightly concentrated and penetrating with an amalgam of pungent passionfruit and gooseberry aromas, lifted with subtle tropical fruit elements. Dry to taste and medium-bodied, tight and intense flavors of passionfruit are entwined with layers of herbs and minerals.
Marlborough Estate Reserve Sauvignon Blanc is a white from Marlborough, New Zealand.
1,063 other whites from New Zealand form the cohort it is ranked inside. 999 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 1,031 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Marlborough Estate Reserve Sauvignon Blanc 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 · New Zealand (1,064 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 999.
