Dessert · Barsac · Francia
Château Climens Barsac (Premier Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 2,017 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Dessert · Francia (15 wines).
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What reviewers say
“My perfect Sauternes! My privilege is to have a neighbor that brings this wine to my house every summer in Risør.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Château Climens Barsac (Premier Grand Cru Classé) is a dessert wine from Barsac, France.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 14 other dessert wines from France, not against the corpus as a whole. 2,017 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 2,052 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 Climens Barsac (Premier Grand Cru Classé) 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 · Francia (15 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 2,017.
Cohort: Dessert · Francia







