Dessert · Sauternes · France
Château Rieussec Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 5,958 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Dessert · France (423 wines).
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Tasting profile
A honeyed, botrytized Sauternes with aromas of vanilla, stone fruit, apple, and a striking saline-mineral edge that lifts it above the usual sweet profile. The texture is syrupy and thick yet stays fresh and not cloying, finishing with a long, lingering sweetness.
Synthesized from 5,958Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“O melhor vinho botritizado que já provei. Aromas intensos mas paladar nada enjoativo! Um vinho de sobremesa espetacular que merece todos os 100 pontos recebidos!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Light amber colour. Lovely apricot, honey, florals and baked peach notes. Rich texture, stone fruit and honey flavors, subtle mineral quality and a nice finish.
From Sauternes in France, Château Rieussec Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé) is a dessert wine. It is made from Semillion. At $106 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 423 French dessert wines. 5,958 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 6,067 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 Rieussec Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé) 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 · France (423 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 5,958.
Cohort: Dessert · France
