Red · Saint-Julien · France
Château Lagrange Saint-Julien (Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 9,000 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
“Depth and weight with each sip, complexity, a wonderful mouth feel. To the nose it smelled earthy, almost like a soft manure. Maybe a balance of dirt and manure … compost? The taste was simply delightful. The fruit was a berry if something sort.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Château Lagrange Saint-Julien (Grand Cru Classé) is a red from Saint-Julien, France. It is made from Merlot. At $64.39 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band.
9,000 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 9,190 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,134 French reds.
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 Lagrange Saint-Julien (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 9,000.
