White · Sta. Rita Hills · United States
The Hilt Estate Chardonnay
Scored from 302 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
“M: 2019 Consumed 2025 Wow 👌 *live* M lemon colour M nose Still developing What this lacks in fragrance it makes up for in taste - so rich & engaging Bosc pear curds acacia yellow & green apple lime mango vanilla honey caramel coconut cinnamon chamomile agave syrup Dry M6 acid Ta…”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The Hilt Estate Chardonnay is an American white from Sta. Rita Hills.
302 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 304 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 2,311 American whites.
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 The Hilt Estate 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 302.
