Red · Saint-Émilion Grand Cru · France
Château Trotte Vieille Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (Premier Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 1,126 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
“Tasted at Union des Grands Crus Bordeaux 2020 vintage in Chicago on January 25th, 2023. 50% Cabernet Franc, 49% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Sauvignon Beautiful structure and complexity on this. Reminds me of older school Bordeaux. 100% new French oak barrels.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Really fresh and complex on the nose with mint, flowers, and red fruits. Subtle freshness on the palate with attractive red fruits and approachable tannins.
From Saint-Émilion Grand Cru in France, Château Trotte Vieille Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (Premier Grand Cru Classé) is a red. At $76.67 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band. It is made from Cabernet Sauvignon.
1,126 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 1,151 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,134 French reds.
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 Trotte Vieille Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (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 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 1,126.
