Dessert · Entre-deux-Mers · France
Château Bel-Air Saint-Croix-du-Mont
Scored from 84 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Dessert · France (423 wines).
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What reviewers say
“2008 n'est assurement pas le meilleur Millésime. Alors quand un vin est excellent sur une telle année, cela prouve tout le savoir faire du vigneron. Et quand aux 1995, 2005, 2010, cela doit être grandiose. Un très grand liquoreux : fortement sucré, pas dans la demi mesure. Du miel, des fruits blancs compotes et tout aussi de la légèreté et des notes de fleurs en fin de bouche. Grand vin”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Château Bel-Air Saint-Croix-du-Mont is a French dessert wine from Entre-deux-Mers.
422 other dessert wines from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 84 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 86 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Château Bel-Air Saint-Croix-du-Mont 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 Dessert · France (423 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 84.
Cohort: Dessert · France
