Red · Vin de France · Frankreich
Baron Philippe de Rothschild La Capitelle de Baronarques
Scored from 242 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Frankreich (147 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Domaine Baronarques wine dinner at YunHouse 4SeasonsKL 20.01.24 1st red tasted but found this very subdued on the nose, faint whiffs of plum blackcurrant raspberry. Mouthfeel was very pleasant, with good balance of freshness, against backdrop of firmer, but velvety tannins. Midpalate cedar and smoked leather but just a tad thin, uninspiring even if it drinks seamlessly... is it past its prime? Or is this the style typicity of understated character? Cepages: Merlot 50 Syrah 40 Malbec 10”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Baron Philippe de Rothschild La Capitelle de Baronarques is a French red from Vin de France. The blend is Malbec, Merlot and Shiraz Syrah.
The calibrated figure is built from 242 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 245 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 146 other reds from France, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Baron Philippe de Rothschild La Capitelle de Baronarques 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 Red · Frankreich (147 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 242.
