White · Margaret River · Australia
Vasse Felix Chardonnay
Scored from 947 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Australia (1,361 wines).
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What reviewers say
“An excellent wine from the dominant Margaret River area. The Vasse Felix vineyard was the founding estate of the area in 1967. A red gummy gravel soil with clay about 18” deep produced this lovely wine.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has pale straw with a green tinge. Complex perfume with vibrant fruit fragrances of pineapple, white peach and delicate fresh ginger and wild mushroom nuances beneath. Yeast and fine oak contribute exciting layers, spicy clove and stone flint. It is bright, fresh and luscious with white peach and mushroom notes and a fine-tuned structure integrating the wine's mouth-watering acidity.
Vasse Felix Chardonnay is an Australian white from Margaret River. At $46.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 947 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 962 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 1,360 other whites from Australia form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Vasse Felix 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 · Australia (1,361 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 947.
