Sparkling · Champagne · France
Bonvalet Épopée
Scored from 140 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
“E di un bel giallo dorato con un perlage molto fine. All’olfatto bella complessità aromatica, con sentori di frutta matura e spezie, si percepiscono note di pesca e sfumature di mela cotta e composta. In bocca riesce a combinare in maniera equilibrata struttura, persistenza e vivacità. Il palato e vellutato con sapori di pera, brioche e spezie. Ottimo il finale di media lunghezza.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Bonvalet Épopée is a French sparkling wine from Champagne. The blend is Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier.
The calibrated figure is built from 140 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 142 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 2,765 other sparkling wines 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 Bonvalet Épopée 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 140.
Cohort: Sparkling · France
