White · Pessac-Léognan · France
Château Smith Haut-Lafitte Pessac-Léognan Blanc
Scored from 1,642 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · France (7,336 wines).
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Tasting profile
A pale, bright yellow white showing citrus, apricot, honey, and floral-grassy aromatics with a discreet toasted edge. Dry, highly acidic, and complex on the palate, with impressive length and an ageworthy structure that reviewers consistently rate as exceptional.
Synthesized from 1,642Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Une merveille. Des notes d'agrume au nez. En bouche on découvre un vin d'une grande complexité. Exceptionnel”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Pessac-Léognan in France, Château Smith Haut-Lafitte Pessac-Léognan Blanc is a white. It blends Sauvignon Blanc and Semillion. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $200, which puts the bottle in the $120-and-up band.
1,642 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 1,663 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 7,335 other whites from France form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Smith Haut-Lafitte Pessac-Léognan Blanc 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 White · France (7,336 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 1,642.
