Red · Castillon - Côtes de Bordeaux · France
Château German Castillon - Côtes de Bordeaux
Scored from 521 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
“Solid Bordeaux presenting full red n black fruit with bing cherry dominating. Weak bouquet countered by pleasing mouthfeel. Excellent dinner and party red. The Vivino 3.4 rating is abnormally low considering my positive experience and the WE 92 seems overly generous. My 3.9 on quality is realistic. Quality. 3.9 Price. 4.5 Total. 4.2 Very good value for money. I will buy more if there are any bottles left! PS: Sold out! 10/13/24: Finished off my 3rd bottle. Just as pleased as the 1st one. 👌”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Castillon - Côtes de Bordeaux in France, Château German Castillon - Côtes de Bordeaux is a red. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $16.44. It blends Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
521 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 530 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 German Castillon - Côtes de Bordeaux 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 521.
