Dessert · Sauternes · France
Château Laville Sauternes
Scored from 435 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Dessert · France (423 wines).
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Tasting profile
A rich, full-bodied botrytized Sauternes with a deep golden color, showing pronounced notes of dried fruit, fig, sultana, and stone fruit alongside honey, vanilla, and sweet spice. Lush sweetness is balanced by notably high acidity, with the Semillon character coming through clearly on a long, structured finish.
Synthesized from 435Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Magically Golden, great sweetness and finish, amazing stone fruits and honey, tropical fruits galore . Even some notable acidity. What a great wine.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Sauternes in France, Château Laville Sauternes is a dessert wine.
422 other dessert wines from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. 435 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 443 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 Laville Sauternes 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 Dessert · France (423 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 435.
Cohort: Dessert · France
