Dessert · Sauternes · Francia
Château Gravas Sauternes
Scored from 869 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Dessert · Francia (15 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Clear, medium, golden. Nose: Mature green fruit, yellow apples, apricot and nectarine. Dried fruit of dried apricot. Honey, wax and soft mushroom notes. Palate: Rich, sweet and nuanced. Rich sweetness, yet good acidity to balance. Ripe green fruit, yellow apples and apricot.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Château Gravas Sauternes is a dessert wine from Sauternes, France, made from Semillion. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $39.99, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 14 other dessert wines from France, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 869 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 884 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 Gravas Sauternes 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 Dessert · Francia (15 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 869.
Cohort: Dessert · Francia
