Red · Saint-Émilion Grand Cru · France
Château La Dominique Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 2,847 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
“Alors qu'on se le dise, ce n'est pas tous les jours que j'accorde un 5* à une quille ! Tout simplement fabuleux, en tout cas c'est complètement la trame que je recherche !”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep and shiny colour with an intense, characterized nose by seducing aromas of ripe fruits and subtle spicy notes. In most vintages, you will find truffle and licorice notes, complemented by peppery and woody aromas. Fleshy and round, with silky and precise tannins. The finish is long and full and leaves you with a pleasant feeling of bliss.
Château La Dominique Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (Grand Cru Classé) is Merlot grown in Saint-Émilion Grand Cru, bottled as a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $64.00, which puts the bottle in the $60–120 band.
1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 2,847 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,925 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 La Dominique Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (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 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 2,847.
