Sparkling · Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' · France
Champagne Lallier Millésime Brut Collection Mémoire Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ'
Scored from 287 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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Tasting profile
A finely-beaded, complex Grand Cru Champagne whose long lees aging shows in brioche, toasted lemon, cream, and roasted almond notes alongside honeysuckle, ripe red apple, and a spicy, faintly floral edge. Full of depth on the palate, with subdued bubbles and a slightly bitter finish that reviewers found delicious and crowd-pleasing.
Synthesized from 287Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Wow! The 9 years of aging shines through...deep honeysuckle, guava on the nose, tarred birchwood and wet sand notes, subdued bubbles.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Champagne Lallier Millésime Brut Collection Mémoire Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' is a French sparkling wine from Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ'.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 2,765 other sparkling wines from France, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 287 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 291 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 Champagne Lallier Millésime Brut Collection Mémoire Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' 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 287.
Cohort: Sparkling · France
