White · Mendocino County · United States
Toad Hollow Chardonnay Unoaked Francines Selection
Scored from 859 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
“Orange, lime, pear, mango, on the nose. Citrus, Orange, lime, grapefruit, pear, apple, butter in the palate. Love an unoaked Chardonnay. Citrus forward, unlike the more common oaky Chardonnay. Nice medium-full body. Acidity is high for a Chardonnay, but still fairly low in general. Not super dry. Medium long, citrusy finish. Well balanced Could easily drink more of this. Didn’t know I could like Chardonnay this much. Guess I just needed a citrus forward one as opposed to an oaky one.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Aromas of fresh picked apricot and melon along with tropical notes of pineapple mingle with a hint of honey. Bright stone-fruit flavors of peach refresh the palate and blend with pear and rich apple compote notes for a mouthwatering finish.
Toad Hollow Chardonnay Unoaked Francines Selection is a white from Mendocino County, the United States. At $15.97 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 2,311 American whites. The calibrated figure is built from 859 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 889 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 Toad Hollow Chardonnay Unoaked Francines Selection 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 859.
