Red · Pauillac · France
Château Lynch-Bages Pauillac (Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 12,593 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 complex, layered Pauillac showing dark fruit alongside well-integrated secondary and tertiary notes of tobacco and vanilla, with a long finish that rewards extended decanting. Majestic yet silky on the palate, balanced and elegant, and built to keep evolving with further age.
Synthesized from 12,593Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“What a beautiful wine, an incredible bouquet of secondary and tertiary flavors that are so well balanced with the fruit notes.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Pauillac in France, Château Lynch-Bages Pauillac (Grand Cru Classé) is a red. It blends Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot. At $145 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
12,593 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 12,942 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Lynch-Bages Pauillac (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 12,593.
