Dessert · Loire Valley · France
Château de Fosse-Sèche De But en Blanc
Scored from 12 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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Tasting profile
A rich, sweet Chenin from the Loire showing quince, mirabelle, candied apple, fig, apricot and mango, layered with vanilla, oak and a touch of saffron spice. Reviewers describe it as lusciously sweet and concentrated yet kept lively by a clear mineral streak, drawing comparisons to Sauternes-style dessert wines.
Synthesized from 12Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Très fruité, odeur de coing, mirabelle, safran, orange. En bouche: très doux, beurré, goût vanillé, boisé.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Château de Fosse-Sèche De But en Blanc is a dessert wine from Loire Valley, France.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 423 French dessert wines. Only 12 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 12 reviewers with at least two ratings 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 de Fosse-Sèche De But en Blanc 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 12.
Cohort: Dessert · France
