Red · Pomerol · France
Château La Pointe Pomerol
Scored from 2,767 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
“I have very good news about this wine and bad news too. First good news. It's very easy to detect that this is Merlot wine. Ten thousand pounds of black coffee and black chocolate in taste. Sweet profile with the addition of black cherry, plum and blackberry. Thick texture.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The colour is dense, with dark purple tints. Aromas of violet and small forest fruit gently appear. They are followed by cedar, black spices and sandalwood. The palate is smooth and creamy, yet not at all heavy ; beautifully fresh and well-balanced. The length is impressive, caressing and voluptuous with an inviting, mouth-watering finish.
From Pomerol in France, Château La Pointe Pomerol is a red. At $52.43 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band. It is made from Merlot.
1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. 2,767 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 2,845 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Pointe 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 2,767.
