Sparkling · Sta. Rita Hills · United States
Racines Grand Reserve Sparkling Chardonnay
Scored from 87 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · United States (455 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Upon opening, this was extremely acidic with linear green apple and lemon flavors - and not much else. Laser beam acidity. After 2 hours, this opened up nicely and became much more approachable. The palate became creamy and toast with lovely green apple, stone fruit and vanilla notes. Long, lingering lemon peel finish. Crisp and ripe character. A lovely expression of Chardonnay. Give this 1-2 hours of air to show best”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Sta. Rita Hills in the United States, Racines Grand Reserve Sparkling Chardonnay is a sparkling wine. At $85.12 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 87 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 87 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 454 other sparkling wines from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Racines Grand Reserve Sparkling 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 Sparkling · United States (455 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 87.
Cohort: Sparkling · United States
