Sparkling · Champagne · France
Ayala Brut Majeur Champagne
Scored from 4,397 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · France (2,766 wines).
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What reviewers say
“(16/20) Entry-level Champagne from this grand house, acquired by Bollinger in 2005. Grippy, well-balanced, good structure, slightly bitter. Blend of 45% Chardonnay, 35% Pinot Noir and 20% Meunier. 75% 2018 vintage + 25% reserve wine. Disgorged in July 2021.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Light gold, with abundant and fine bubbles. Open and expressive. Delicate, unveiling notes of citrus, flowers and white fruits. Balanced, combining freshness and vinosity. Precise, fruity and characterised by a long finish.
Ayala Brut Majeur Champagne is a sparkling wine from Champagne, France. It is made from Chardonnay. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $57.75.
2,765 other sparkling wines from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. 4,397 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 4,452 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 Ayala Brut Majeur Champagne 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 · France (2,766 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 4,397.
Cohort: Sparkling · France
