Red · Bekaa Valley · Lebanon
Château Musar Rouge (Gaston Hochar)
Scored from 19,377 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Lebanon (10 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Um dos melhores vinhos que já tomei. Um dos meus preferidos também. Esse vinho é único e original. Uma experiência única e inesquecível.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Scarlet in colour with terracotta tones at the rim, it has a complex nose of cigar box spice, warm leather, baked fruits, ripe morello cherries and blackcurrants. The palate has intense flavours of red cherries, dark chocolate, olives, figs and velvet smooth tannins on the very long finish.
From Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, Château Musar Rouge (Gaston Hochar) is a red. It blends Carignane, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cinsault. It sits in the $60–120 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $78.19.
19,377 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 19,843 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 10 Lebanese 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 Musar Rouge (Gaston Hochar) 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 · Lebanon (10 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 19,377.
