Dessert · Sauternes · Frankreich
Château Guiraud Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 5,200 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Dessert · Frankreich (16 wines).
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Tasting profile
A full-bodied Sauternes with pronounced honey aromas and notes of earthy orange, balanced by impeccable acidity that keeps it fresh rather than cloying. Reviewers describe a harmonious classic that never turns too rich or too sweet, drinking generously and pairing well with cheese.
Synthesized from 5,200Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Very nice Sauternes, from a 37,5cl bottle it's great to drink now. Not as complex, rich and long lasting as 2001 but great value nonetheless”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Château Guiraud Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé) is a dessert wine from Sauternes, France. At $59.79 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band. It blends Sauvignon Blanc and Semillion.
5,200 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 5,282 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 15 other dessert wines from France form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Guiraud Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé) 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 · Frankreich (16 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 5,200.
Cohort: Dessert · Frankreich
