Red · Pomerol · France
Château La Fleur-Pétrus Pomerol
Scored from 3,291 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
“Amazing wine, lovely fresh taste to it. Beautiful aroma and it drinks so well. The dark fruit flavours are wonderful”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
On the nose a tight core of black fruits, blackcurrants and dark cherries. Beautifully textured on the palate, sweet and quite fleshy, supple and flattering. Lots of ripe tannins but they are very well hidden by this layer of fruit, with a lovely sense of grip coming in. Great acidity at the core. Wonderful structure and balance here, and an elegant substance to the finish.
Château La Fleur-Pétrus Pomerol is a French red from Pomerol. The blend is Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $322, which puts the bottle in the $120-and-up band.
1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 3,291 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,385 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 Fleur-Pétrus Pomerol 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 3,291.
