White · Coal River Valley · Australia
Pooley Cooinda Vale Chardonnay
Scored from 141 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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Tasting profile
A beautifully balanced old-style Chardonnay with crisp green apple, lemon and flinty notes lifted by bubble gum and elderflower, with vanilla and a touch of toasty oak playing a gentle supporting role. Smooth and well-regarded as one of Tasmania's best.
Synthesized from 141Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Wow def my fave Tassie Chardy & one of Australia’s best. A beautifully balanced wine with oak playing a gentle supporting role.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Pooley Cooinda Vale Chardonnay is an Australian white from Coal River Valley.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,360 other whites from Australia, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 141 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 144 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Pooley Cooinda Vale 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 141.
