White · Sonoma Coast · United States
Radio-Coteau Heintz Chardonnay
Scored from 21 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 complex, full-bodied Chardonnay with a buttery, vanilla-tinged nose layered with toast and a touch of hazelnut, leading to a palate of Asian pear, yellow apple, and citrus lifted by bright, tingly acidity. Restrained oak and a long, balanced finish give it an elegant, lean character with real depth.
Synthesized from 21Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Smells like butter and vanilla cake, toast and a little hazelnut, palate comes through cleanly lemon lime and a bit of honey. Nice high tone acid”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Radio-Coteau Heintz Chardonnay is a white from Sonoma Coast, the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 2,311 American whites. Only 21 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 21 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 Radio-Coteau Heintz 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 21.
