Red · Haut-Médoc · France
Château Sénéjac Haut-Médoc
Scored from 2,964 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
“Nota: 4.3 ⭐ Vinho degustado no Château Talbot, em Bordeaux, no dia 20 de abril de 2023 (Wine tasted at Château Talbot, in Bordeaux, on April 20, 2023). As degustações en primeur ocorrem na primavera seguinte à colheita (normalmente março ou abril).”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Very deep colour with an expressive nose of black fruits and spices. It is powerful and intense, while remaining smooth, thanks to the finesse of its tannins. A charming and distinguished wine that can be drunk young, when its fruity aromas are most enjoyable, or, even better, after ageing to discover the elegance and the richness of its terroir.
Château Sénéjac Haut-Médoc is a French red from Haut-Médoc. The grape is Petit Verdot. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $27.50.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,134 French reds. The calibrated figure is built from 2,964 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,029 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 Sénéjac Haut-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 2,964.
