Red · Côtes de Bourg · France
Château la Grolet Côtes de Bourg
Scored from 647 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
“Flavors showcase red and black fruits, with a moderately strong current of smoke, charred campfire wood, and damp ash. Medium-light body, acidity that is forward at the front of the palate but not potent, some tart tang at the end. Finish is moderate, just a hint of tannins.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Aromas cocoa and leather combine with the already existing aromas of red fruits. Tannins then becomes silkier and the wine reveals its complexity.
Château la Grolet Côtes de Bourg is a French red made from Cabernet Sauvignon. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $22.99, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band. It is bottled in Côtes de Bourg.
647 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 668 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 1,133 other reds 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 la Grolet Côtes de Bourg 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 647.
