Fortified · Banyuls · France
Clos Saint Sébastien Le Coeur Banyuls Grand Cru
Scored from 10 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · France (205 wines).
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Tasting profile
A richly oxidative Banyuls showing dried apricot, prune, raisin, fig, and dark berry alongside chocolate, caramel, toasted nuts, and a touch of smoke and sweet spice. Luscious yet not cloying, with fine tannins, mellow complexity, and a long, warming finish that pairs beautifully with chocolate desserts.
Synthesized from 10Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Always been a big fan of old banyuls and this one don’t disappoint 🔥🍷🙌 definitely incredible value for money there - intense, generous wine with dried fruit notes, toasted almonds, raisins”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Banyuls in France, Clos Saint Sébastien Le Coeur Banyuls Grand Cru is a fortified wine.
Only 10 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 10 reviewers with at least two ratings feeds the raw-average track. 204 other fortified wines 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 Saint Sébastien Le Coeur Banyuls Grand Cru 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 Fortified · France (205 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 10.
Cohort: Fortified · France
