Sparkling · England · Vereinigtes Königreich
Wiston Blanc de Noirs
Scored from 109 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · Vereinigtes Königreich (16 wines).
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Tasting profile
A crisp, dry English sparkling wine with vibrant green apple and citrus fruit, lifted by fresh acidity and lively bubbles. The best examples show a richer, toasty side of brioche, butter and salted almonds, with a long, sophisticated finish that reviewers compare to fine Champagne.
Synthesized from 109Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Fantastic stuff. Pinnacle of what English sparkling is and can be. Toasted, salted and honey almonds, lovely fruit - green apples and citrus, great acidity, long length and hugely sophisticated.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Wiston Blanc de Noirs is a sparkling wine from England, the United Kingdom.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 15 other sparkling wines from the United Kingdom, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 109 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 112 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 Wiston Blanc de Noirs 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 · Vereinigtes Königreich (16 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 109.
Cohort: Sparkling · Vereinigtes Königreich
