Red · Saint-Julien · France
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Le Petit Caillou Saint-Julien
Scored from 593 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
“This bottle drunk at 10yrs old , and it seduced the palette with soft rounded yummyness. Perfect balance and depth..a lovely Bordeaux with character and class. Definitely better than the same wine two years ago.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A rather reserved nose, dusty fruit. Sweetly composed plate, nice substance, fresh, good acidity. Good spicy backbone, a nice wine overall.
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Le Petit Caillou Saint-Julien is a red from Saint-Julien, France, blended from Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $44.24, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,134 French reds. The calibrated figure is built from 593 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 605 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 Ducru-Beaucaillou Le Petit Caillou Saint-Julien 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 593.
