White · Sonoma County · United States
St. Francis Chardonnay
Scored from 994 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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What reviewers say
“A nice 2021 Sonoma County Chardonnay that was offered at the AHEPA 29 Educational Foundation's 2023 Christmas Gala at the Houston Junior League. Medium straw color with viscous legs. Slightly off dry, full bodied with medium acidity.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Aromas of fresh melon combine with hints of hazelnut and citrus.Displays fresh flavors of butterscotch and pineapple, followed by crisp acidity and a rich, lingering finish
St. Francis Chardonnay is an American white from Sonoma County. At $16.79 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 2,310 other whites from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. 994 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 1,030 reviewers with at least two ratings each 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 St. Francis 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 994.
