Red · Margaux · Frankreich
Château Malescot St. Exupery Margaux (Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 4,588 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Frankreich (147 wines).
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Tasting profile
A premium, firm-structured Margaux bursting with big blackcurrant fruit and leather notes, showing youthful freshness alongside attractive aged complexity. Uber smooth and deep, it drinks beautifully now after a long decant and has the stuffing to develop further over the next decade-plus.
Synthesized from 4,588Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Wat een proefervaring! Dit is met recht eten en drinken tegelijk! Mooie verouderingstonen en nog meer dan voldoende fruit! Topwijn van een topjaar!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Notes of graphite, black currant liqueur, incense and camphor make for a complex and intensely penetrating set of aromatics. Dark ruby/purple, medium to full-bodied, with superb concentration and moderate tannin, this wine is a beauty of finesse and substance.
Château Malescot St. Exupery Margaux (Grand Cru Classé) is a French red made from Cabernet Sauvignon. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $80.04, which puts the bottle in the $60–120 band. The vineyard region is Margaux, France.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 146 other reds from France, not against the corpus as a whole. 4,588 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 4,674 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 Malescot St. Exupery Margaux (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 · Frankreich (147 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 4,588.
