Red · Médoc · France
Château Potensac Chapelle de Potensac Médoc
Scored from 2,861 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
“4.1 I enjoyed the 2003 Chapelle so I tried this 2010 given the vintage. It’s just ok. Chapelle is the 2nd wine of Potensac, one of the northernmost vineyards in the Medoc, more north than Calon Segur. 130 acres of 50 yo vines. Needs decanting.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Excellent notes of crushed rocks, red and black currants, licorice and earth. Supple-textured, medium-bodied and nicely concentrated, it should provide pleasure over the next 7-10 years.
Château Potensac Chapelle de Potensac Médoc is a French red from Médoc. The blend is Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. At $22.83 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 2,861 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,918 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Potensac Chapelle de Potensac Médoc 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 2,861.
