Red · Saint-Émilion Grand Cru · France
Château Magnan La Gaffelière Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
Scored from 900 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
“70% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Het terroir van Magnan la Gaffelière combineert kleiaders met zanderige uitlopers,12 maand op eik waarvan 30% nieuw Diep robijnrood, helder, medium benen In de neus zeer aromatisch,pioenroos,violet,evolutie naar pruim,blauwe …”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The garnet robe is intense and deep. On the nose, red fruit mingle with toasty aromas, toasted barrel aging. In the mouth the attack, fine and elegant, rises and leaves on the puck tinged chocolate flavor of licorice. The finish is rather long.
From Saint-Émilion Grand Cru in France, Château Magnan La Gaffelière Saint-Émilion Grand Cru is a red. It blends Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
900 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 942 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 Magnan La Gaffelière Saint-Émilion Grand Cru 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 900.
