White · Napa Valley · United States
Stags' Leap Sauvignon Blanc
Scored from 570 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
“Complex aromas of lemon, grapefruit melon, apple, grass & minerals. Flavors are reflective of the nose with additional notes of lime, pear & herbal notes. Finish is long and bright with flint minerality. Dry, med+ body & med+ acidity.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Lively, expressive and vibrant, exhibiting the variety’s classic citrus fruit, lemongrass and white floral nuances. Backed up by a lean focused line of acidity and a steely minerality that adds to the wine’s crispness and complexity. There is a depth of flavor with candied lemon peel, passion fruit and melon, alongside hints of white floral jasmine and white pepper that linger on the palate of the lengthy finish.
Stags' Leap Sauvignon Blanc is a white from Napa Valley, the United States. At $27.52 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. The calibrated figure is built from 570 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 584 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 Stags' Leap 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 · 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 570.
