Red · Pauillac · France
Château Lafite Rothschild Carruades de Lafite Pauillac
Scored from 3,324 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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Tasting profile
A full-bodied Pauillac with smooth tannins and notes of blackberry, chocolate, smoke, and earth, showing both depth and elegance. Reviewers describe it as exceptionally smooth, well-balanced, and memorable, a refined second wine from a renowned estate.
Synthesized from 3,324Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“With Van, Bonnie, Tim and Sue at the condo on Friday July 19, 2013. As French as it can get.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Heady, floral nose with exceptional complexity. On the palate, fine balance on the attack continues with good flavour expression before a fairly long finish with lovely structure, still lively and with a hint of woodiness.
Château Lafite Rothschild Carruades de Lafite Pauillac is a red from Pauillac, France, blended from Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot. At $215 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 3,324 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,456 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 Lafite Rothschild Carruades de Lafite Pauillac 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 3,324.
