Red · Haut-Médoc · Frankreich
Château Fontesteau Haut-Médoc
Scored from 1,417 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
“Majestic Ipswich Bordeaux tasting catch up. Deep garnet in colour. Aromas of leather, tobacco, vanilla, black fruits with a hint of spice. Dry, balanced acidity, integrated medium tannins, full bodied, long warming finish.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
beautiful purply-tinted crimson robe. The nose is complex, offering toasty aromas mingling with spice and black fruit. Both powerful and elegant, this wine is ample and rich in the palate. The mid-palate is dense and fleshy with silky tannins on the finish
Château Fontesteau Haut-Médoc is a French red made from Cabernet Sauvignon. The vineyard region is Haut-Médoc, France.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 147 French reds. 1,417 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 1,458 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 Fontesteau Haut-Médoc 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 1,417.
