Red · Saint-Émilion Grand Cru · France
Château Franc Le Maine Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
Scored from 539 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
“Discovering french wines 🇫🇷 #2 St. Emilion Cru 🌱🍇 Cab.Franc, Cab.Sauv. Merlot 14.5% 👀 deep precious red 12/12 👃 Complex,intensity 🔝, average quality:cherry and wood above all, black fruits, red fruits. Leather, tobacco. 28/36 👅 To me, very strong and powerful taste.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Dark red colour and purple tints. On the nose, layers of jammy red fruits with a hint of wood. In the mouth, the wine is very expressive with ripe Merlot grapes, melted tannins and good length. Very elegant and well-structured.
From Saint-Émilion Grand Cru in France, Château Franc Le Maine Saint-Émilion Grand Cru is a red. It blends Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
539 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 561 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,133 other reds from France, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Franc Le Maine Saint-Émilion Grand Cru 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 539.
