Red · Châteauneuf-du-Pape · Frankreich
Clos des Papes (Paul Avril) Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Scored from 4,492 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Frankreich (147 wines).
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Tasting profile
A dark, richly perfumed Chateauneuf-du-Pape showing blackberry and blueberry fruit layered with mocha, dark chocolate, sweet tobacco, plum, and earthy spice. Reviewers describe it as smooth and velvety with soft tannins, complex and well-balanced, and capable of aging gracefully over many years.
Synthesized from 4,492Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Very rich perfumed. Cocked plum, raisins, sweet tobacco, dark chocolate. Wonderful dark fruit and erotic and velvet tannins. What a wine ! (97++)”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Clos des Papes (Paul Avril) Châteauneuf-du-Pape is a red from Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France. It sits in the $60–120 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $115.
The calibrated figure is built from 4,492 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 4,584 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 146 other reds 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 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 · Frankreich (147 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 4,492.
