Red · Fronton · France
Château Bellevue La Forêt Fronton
Scored from 470 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
“In my endless search for a cheap, good, lean and low-ish ABV Bordeaux ended up being dyslexic and mistaken Fronsac for Fronton, exchanging Merlot for Negrette*. But this fits the bill perfectly: Medium to full bodied showing intense black fruits underlined by savoury hints. Punching way above the price tag, it still has a couple more years at least before its peak. *Jokes apart, the Negrette grape was what had drawn me to this bottle. Very good and interesting stuff.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Fronton in France, Château Bellevue La Forêt Fronton is a red.
1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. 470 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 494 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Bellevue La Forêt Fronton 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 470.
