White · Santa Maria Valley · United States
Peake Ranch Sierra Madre Vineyard Chardonnay
Scored from 29 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 silky, medium-bodied California Chardonnay balancing tropical and orchard fruit - pineapple, peach, green apple, citrus - with buttery, creamy oak, vanilla, and a mineral-driven finish. Reviewers note medium acidity and impressive balance, drinking well alongside lighter fare or richer seafood like crab and sea bass.
Synthesized from 29Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Smooth, light, fruity, perfect Chardonnay to pair with a light meal or on a warm day.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Peake Ranch Sierra Madre Vineyard Chardonnay is a white from Santa Maria Valley, the United States.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 2,310 other whites from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. Only 29 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 30 reviewers with at least two ratings 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 Peake Ranch Sierra Madre 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 29.
