Red · Graves · France
Château Ferrande Graves
Scored from 2,773 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
“Voilà un Graves qui porte haut les couleurs de l’appellation ! Superbe année même niveau que 2000. Une robe grenat soutenu, dense profonde. Un nez expressif ou domine le cuir mouillé, la compotée de fruits noirs n’est pas loin.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A beautiful dark red colour, along with a nose of black fruits and fresh cocoa. Soft, smooth texture on the attack, leading to a good, rounded body with silky tannins. This exceptionally elegant wine shows delightful flavours of very ripe fruit, cocoa and spices, balancing beautifully with an edge of oak. An excellent finish.
From Graves in France, Château Ferrande Graves is a red. It blends Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. 2,773 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 2,893 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 Ferrande Graves 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 2,773.
