White · Russian River Valley · United States
Paul Hobbs Ulises Valdez Vineyard Chardonnay
Scored from 36 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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Tasting profile
A luxurious, full-bodied California Chardonnay that reviewers describe as silky and rounded, with crisp citrus and tangerine acidity balanced by well-integrated, toasty oak. Notes of vanilla, almond, cinnamon spice, and a faint floral lift round out a rich but refreshing profile.
Synthesized from 36Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Espetacular branco do Paul Hobbs. Muita fruta integrada com "efeitos especiais" e uma madeira potente, mas delicada!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Paul Hobbs Ulises Valdez Vineyard Chardonnay is a white from Russian River Valley, the United States.
Only 36 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 36 reviewers with at least two ratings feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 2,311 American 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 Paul Hobbs Ulises Valdez Vineyard 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 36.
