Red · Saint-Émilion Grand Cru · Frankreich
Château de Fonbel Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
Scored from 2,214 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Frankreich (147 wines).
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What reviewers say
“I have had this wine for 23 years & I am so happy we held on to it. Opened it & was blown away at how well this wine aged. Nose is concentrated smoke and Violet and mushroom.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Saint-Émilion Grand Cru in France, Château de Fonbel Saint-Émilion Grand Cru is a red. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $34.75.
The calibrated figure is built from 2,214 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,281 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 146 other reds 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 Château de Fonbel Saint-Émilion Grand Cru 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 · Frankreich (147 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 2,214.
