Red · Pauillac · France
Château Pontet-Canet Les Hauts de Pontet-Canet Pauillac
Scored from 656 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
“The secondary wine of the famous vineyard owned by the Tesserons. This is the wine from barrels not selected for the growth wine. 16 months in oak and hand picked. Wasn't decanted on tasting December 2014. Ruby colour, tawny on the rims. The wine has aged brilliantly.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A colour that’s got great hold. A nose of red fruits and spices with a hint of graphite. On the palate, the wine is very round with a structure of great finesse. Good length and great aromatic persistence with hints of gingerbread on the finish.
From Pauillac in France, Château Pontet-Canet Les Hauts de Pontet-Canet Pauillac is a red. It blends Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot.
1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. 656 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 679 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 Pontet-Canet Les Hauts de Pontet-Canet Pauillac 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 656.
