White · Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos · France
Billaud-Simon Chablis Grand Cru 'Les Clos'
Scored from 166 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · France (7,336 wines).
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Tasting profile
A balanced, refreshing Chablis with a mellow nose of butter, honey, almond and saline smoke, leading into a dry, high-acid palate of yellow apple, lemon and creamy minerality with a distinct salty, almost oyster-shell finish. Reviewers note umami, earthy hints and a long finish, making it a natural match for oysters and seafood.
Synthesized from 166Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Mushroom?? It got hints of peach, vanilla and a delicate subtle sandstone. But instantly some earthly taste that reminds of mushroom. Umami!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Billaud-Simon Chablis Grand Cru 'Les Clos' is a French white from Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos.
166 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 168 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 7,335 other whites 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 Billaud-Simon Chablis Grand Cru 'Les Clos' 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 · France (7,336 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 166.
