Dessert · Sauternes · Francia
Château Rieussec Carmes de Rieussec Sauternes
Scored from 3,362 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Dessert · Francia (15 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Sémillon(85%), Sauvignon Blanc (10%) e Muscadelle (5%). Fermentação lenta e maturação em barricas de carvalho francês por 18 meses. Garrafa de 500 ml, botrytis. Dourado profundo.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Bouquet of white flowers, acacia and honeysuckle. On the palate, the sweetness is present from the start with notes of honey; the wine then confirms a balanced, harmonious structure and the moderately long finish ends with a pleasant, fairly lively expression.
From Sauternes in France, Château Rieussec Carmes de Rieussec Sauternes is a dessert wine. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $34.99. It blends Sauvignon Blanc and Semillion.
3,362 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 3,418 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 14 other dessert wines 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 Rieussec Carmes de Rieussec Sauternes 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 Dessert · Francia (15 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 3,362.
Cohort: Dessert · Francia
