White · Marlborough · New Zealand
Petal & Stem Sauvignon Blanc
Scored from 147 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · New Zealand (1,064 wines).
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What reviewers say
“You know how some people carry on with all the crap about 18,000 aromas and 30,000 tastes well with this wine I might finally get it all, no but naaaarrrrr. This does smell like cut grass on my farm and tastes to me like a sweet lime, dry in the mouth but lots going on as it dances across the tongue 👅. I’m going to New Zealand in a weeks time I’m just changing plans to include this place. I’d definitely buy this again and lots of it”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Petal & Stem Sauvignon Blanc is a white from Marlborough, New Zealand.
147 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 152 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 1,063 other whites from New Zealand 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 Petal & Stem Sauvignon Blanc 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 · New Zealand (1,064 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 147.
