White · Santa Cruz Mountains · Vereinigte Staaten
Mount Eden Vineyards Reserve Chardonnay
Scored from 71 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Vereinigte Staaten (47 wines).
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Tasting profile
An elegant, well-oaked California Chardonnay showing layered aromas of lemon, honey, vanilla, brioche, and orchard fruit like apple and pear, with toasty buttery notes and a hint of honeysuckle. Medium-high acidity keeps it bright and balanced, leading to a rich, complex, long-lingering finish.
Synthesized from 71Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Normally chardonnay is not my thing... But that was before tasting This exceptionel wine.. Woww have too buy one bottle more”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Mount Eden Vineyards Reserve Chardonnay is an American white from Santa Cruz Mountains.
46 other whites from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 71 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 71 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 Mount Eden Vineyards 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 · Vereinigte Staaten (47 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 71.
