Red · Margaux · Francia
Château Desmirail Margaux (Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 2,073 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Francia (72 wines).
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What reviewers say
“My last bottle of this Margaux Grand Cru Classé 2010, a very good vintage, of a very good chateau. Like last time, it needs a lot of air to open up: I decanted the wine 2 hours before hand, but still then, quite stiff on the tannins and structure.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Château Desmirail Margaux (Grand Cru Classé) is a red from Margaux, France, blended from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $48.30, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 72 French reds. The calibrated figure is built from 2,073 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,132 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 Desmirail Margaux (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 Red · Francia (72 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 2,073.
