Red · Saint-Estèphe · Francia
Château Montrose Saint-Estèphe (Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 8,705 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Francia (72 wines).
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What reviewers say
“One of the best Bordeaux i tasted in the last month. Lot of black fruits very concentrated but also sweet tannins !”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has a fine and elegant robe with a beautifully intense and dark garnet. The nose, powerful and harmonious, is pleasantly woody. Aerated, it reveals lightly toasted aromas, followed with hints of ripe fruits and liquorice. The palate is full and soft with tight tannins and a light sweetness. The finish is long and harmonious.
Château Montrose Saint-Estèphe (Grand Cru Classé) is a French red from Saint-Estèphe. It sits in the $120-and-up band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $175. The blend is Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot.
The calibrated figure is built from 8,705 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 8,883 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 71 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 Montrose Saint-Estèphe (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 · Francia (72 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 8,705.
