Red · Saint-Émilion Grand Cru · France
Château Laroque Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 5,002 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
“Tinto de Libournais, Burdeos, Francia. Blend de 95% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc y 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. Fino y elegante. Color violeta profundo. Ribetes casi negros. Lágrimas delgadas y rapidas. De capa alta. En nariz, aromas a frutos negros. Ciruela. Arándanos. Frambuesa. Mora.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep, dark robe, almost black. Intense bouquet of black fruits. Powerful, generous, smooth attack: the tannic structure has a great presence, but the tannins themselves are fleshy and tasty. The mineral touch on the finish reinforces its aromatic freshness.
Château Laroque Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (Grand Cru Classé) is a French red from Saint-Émilion Grand Cru. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $36.79. The grape is Merlot.
The calibrated figure is built from 5,002 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 5,146 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Laroque Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (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 5,002.
