Red · Pessac-Léognan · France
Château Picque Caillou Pessac-Léognan
Scored from 1,444 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
“This is good, great even! On the nose - cherry, cassis, black currants, tobacco, vanilla, cloves, oak, coffee, dark chocolate, cigar smoke. Everything one likes in a Bordeaux.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The colour is very deep, almost purple. Very fresh nose with lots of aromatic purity, oak is present on the nose but it is well integrated in the fruit. On the palate the wine is very constructed with a more modern smoothness and sensuality. Plenty of volume on the mid-palate with tight-knit but very ripe tannins.
Château Picque Caillou Pessac-Léognan is a red from Pessac-Léognan, France. It blends Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $46.67.
1,444 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 1,487 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,133 other reds from France, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Picque Caillou Pessac-Léognan 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 1,444.
