White · Gippsland · Australia
Patrick Sullivan Black Sands Chardonnay
Scored from 83 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Australia (1,361 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Very pale, straw in appearance ( Riesling-esq ) , foreshadowing ? Nose; butterscotch, biscuit, lemon rind, dandelion, wax, popcorn Palate; Incredibly powerful and concentrated. Creamy mouthfeel framed with laser sharp high acid. Pronounced minerality throughout with slight salinity and chalk -iness on the finish. Butterscotch, butter, lemon meringue, chamomile, stone fruit, banoffee pie w/ underripe banana. 96+ points”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Patrick Sullivan Black Sands Chardonnay is an Australian white from Gippsland. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $19.95, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 83 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 84 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,361 Australian 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 Patrick Sullivan Black Sands 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 · Australia (1,361 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 83.
