Sparkling · Champagne · France
Champagne Devaux Cuvée D Brut
Scored from 1,132 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · France (2,766 wines).
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What reviewers say
“55-60% Pinot Noir, rest Chardonnay. 60% base wine from 2012, rest from perpetual reserve from 1995 to 2011. Only juices from the first half of the first press. 10% oak-aged wine with no malo, another 10-15% stainless steel-aged wine with no malo, rest went through malo.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
On a beautiful golden color, displaying a very fine and persistent foam. On the nose, aromas of white flowers and spices, sweetened by a final of toasted brioche and vanilla. Many freshness with notes of mandarin and orange zest. A fond and creamy palate with a nice long finish.
Champagne Devaux Cuvée D Brut is a sparkling wine from Champagne, France. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $49.99. It is made from Pinot Noir.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 2,765 other sparkling wines from France, not against the corpus as a whole. 1,132 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 1,145 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 Champagne Devaux Cuvée D Brut 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 Sparkling · France (2,766 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 1,132.
Cohort: Sparkling · France
