Sparkling · Champagne · France
Cuillier Blanc de Sable Champagne
Scored from 11 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 pure Chardonnay Blanc de Blancs showing pronounced aromas of green and yellow apple, lemon and tangerine, honey, chalk and flinty minerals, with reviewers also noting caramel, yeast, butter and floral honeysuckle tones. Dry and high in acidity with a medium body and long finish, it comes across as taut and mineral yet creamy and gourmand, with an unusual caramelized, pastry-like richness on the zero-dosage version.
Synthesized from 11Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Un ovni, franchement quel pied ! Gourmand à souhait, rond, a maturité parfaite sur un zéro dosage. Un côté rhum, jus de canne, vanillé, pâtissier, une touche d'ananas caramélisé, super longueur. Je ne crois pas avoir déjà goûté un champagne dans ce style.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Cuillier Blanc de Sable Champagne is a French sparkling wine from Champagne.
2,765 other sparkling wines from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 11 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 11 reviewers with at least two ratings 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 Cuillier Blanc de Sable Champagne 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 11.
Cohort: Sparkling · France
