Red · Bordeaux · France
Barons de Rothschild (Lafite) Réserve Spéciale Bordeaux
Scored from 2,476 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · France (1,134 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Was torn on 3.7 rounded down to 3.5 or 3.8 rounded up to 4.0 but since it paired pretty well with my sukiyaki beef bowl, I have to be generous especially since I got this at a very reasonable price as well.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has medium intensity crimson. Intense and very fruity, with aromas of small red fruit (redcurrants, blackcurrants, raspberries). Supple attack, developing rounded, silky tannins and finishing on fresh liquorice notes.
Barons de Rothschild (Lafite) Réserve Spéciale Bordeaux is a red from Bordeaux, France, made from Moscato.
The calibrated figure is built from 2,476 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,578 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Barons de Rothschild (Lafite) Réserve Spéciale Bordeaux 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 · France (1,134 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 2,476.
