Red · Pessac-Léognan · France
Château Smith Haut-Lafitte Pessac-Léognan (Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 6,664 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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Tasting profile
A complex, well-balanced Bordeaux showing red and dark fruit (blueberries, black cherries, plums) alongside mineral, leather, vanilla, and hints of dark chocolate and oak. Medium-plus body with pronounced yet well-integrated tannins, low acidity, and a long, elegant finish.
Synthesized from 6,664Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Sem dúvida o melhor custo benefício do Chateau. Vinho com um excelente equilíbrio, baixa acidez, taninos acentuados e Carvalho”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Château Smith Haut-Lafitte Pessac-Léognan (Grand Cru Classé) is a French red from Pessac-Léognan.
6,664 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 6,823 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,133 other reds 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 Smith Haut-Lafitte Pessac-Léognan (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 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 6,664.
