Red · Niagara Peninsula · Canada
Clos du Soleil Célestiale
Scored from 221 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Canada (38 wines).
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What reviewers say
“<<VQA needs to be corrected to Similkameen Valley BC, not Niagara>> Outstanding right out of the bottle ... will see what more air will bring. Stunningly beautiful, dense and dark ruby with a fiery hint on edge. Flnt and wispy smoke dominate over fruit.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Clos du Soleil Célestiale is a Canadian red from Niagara Peninsula.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 38 Canadian reds. 221 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 232 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 Clos du Soleil Célestiale 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 · Canada (38 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 221.
