White · Châteauneuf-du-Pape · Francia
Clos des Papes (Paul Avril) Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc
Scored from 750 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Francia (676 wines).
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Tasting profile
A mature, complex white showing honey and straw on the nose with light citrus and hints of anise and menthol. Full-bodied yet beautifully balanced and still fresh, with a pleasant bouquet that pairs well with grilled salmon and vegetables.
Synthesized from 750Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“One of the finest wines I have ever had the pleasure of enjoying. Had with grilled salmon and grilled veggies.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Clos des Papes (Paul Avril) Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc is a white from Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France.
750 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 762 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 675 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 Clos des Papes (Paul Avril) Châteauneuf-du-Pape 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 · Francia (676 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 750.
