Sparkling · Marlborough · New Zealand
Whalebone Bay Sauvignon Blanc Bubbles
Scored from 279 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · New Zealand (51 wines).
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Tasting profile
A bright, sparkling Sauvignon Blanc driven by passion fruit, black currant, and tomato leaf, with a clean mineral edge. High acidity and lively bubbles carry through to a medium-long, refreshing finish well suited to warm weather.
Synthesized from 279Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Amazing aroma of passion fruit, mineral. High acidity on palate with rich bubbles. Medium long finish.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Whalebone Bay Sauvignon Blanc Bubbles is a sparkling wine from Marlborough, New Zealand.
50 other sparkling wines from New Zealand form the cohort it is ranked inside. 279 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 283 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Whalebone Bay Sauvignon Blanc Bubbles 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 · New Zealand (51 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 279.
Cohort: Sparkling · New Zealand
