White · Russian River Valley · United States
Williams Selyem Olivet Lane Vineyard Chardonnay
Scored from 82 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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Tasting profile
A smooth, medium-bodied Chardonnay with light oak and balanced low acidity, showing apple, pear, and honeydew melon fruit alongside hints of star fruit and green tea. Reviewers describe a buttery character with a clean, slightly mineral finish and a touch of citrus tartness.
Synthesized from 82Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“I bought this through the vineyard back in 2014 for $55. I was excited to open it. Was great with crab cakes. Slightly oaky, very clean finish.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Russian River Valley in the United States, Williams Selyem Olivet Lane Vineyard Chardonnay is a white.
82 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 83 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 Williams Selyem Olivet Lane Vineyard 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 82.
