Sparkling · Sussex · United Kingdom
Sugrue The Trouble With Dreams South Downs
Scored from 390 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · United Kingdom (193 wines).
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Tasting profile
A dry, lively English sparkling wine with a fine mousse and bright acidity, showing green apple, citrus and lime, toasted brioche and yeast, with hints of nuts, honey and minerality. Fresh and Chablis-like with a long, faintly saline finish.
Synthesized from 390Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“The most exciting wine of the year, dry , flinty, almost Chablis like, toast/yeasty, tiny fine mousse, effervescent! Great length. What a wine !!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Sugrue The Trouble With Dreams South Downs is a sparkling wine from Sussex, the United Kingdom.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 192 other sparkling wines from the United Kingdom, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 390 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 392 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 Sugrue The Trouble With Dreams South Downs 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 Kingdom (193 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 390.
Cohort: Sparkling · United Kingdom
