White · Sonoma County · United States
Olema Chardonnay
Scored from 1,201 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
“A spry Cali Chard made by AmiciCellars, which barely missed the 2017 wildfires. Pungent nose of apple, apricot, and lemon peel. Tastes of apple, citrus, and lemon meringue pie. Not a typical California Chard as it has little butter or oak but lots of citrus. You’ll either really like it’s citrus acidity or prefer a more creamy Chard. I’m in the first group and enjoyed it chilled while sitting on my rooftop deck.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Aromas of vanilla, ripe apple, pear, buttered toast, and grilled pineapple. Flavors of apple pie, almond, toasted hazelnut and salted caramel are balanced by a fresh lemon acidity, leading to a round, smooth finish.
Olema Chardonnay is an American white from Sonoma County. At $17.66 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
1,201 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 1,236 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 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 Olema 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 1,201.
