Sparkling · Champagne Premier Cru · Francia
David Léclapart l'Apôtre Blanc de Blancs Pas Dosé Champagne Premier Cru
Scored from 192 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · Francia (363 wines).
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Tasting profile
An expressive, emotional Blanc de Blancs showing toast, honey, hazelnut and coffee on the nose, with citrus notes of mandarin and lemon zest alongside red berry and orange blossom. The palate is creamy and smooth yet driven by impactful acidity, balanced by a touch of oxidative richness, finishing long, elegant and persistent.
Synthesized from 192Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“I envy all babies born in 2008 with parents who have an interest in champagne and therefore buy different champagnes from this vintage. This is no exception! What a great glass!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
David Léclapart l'Apôtre Blanc de Blancs Pas Dosé Champagne Premier Cru is a French sparkling wine from Champagne Premier Cru.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 362 other sparkling wines from France, not against the corpus as a whole. 192 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 197 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 David Léclapart l'Apôtre Blanc de Blancs Pas Dosé Champagne Premier 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 Sparkling · Francia (363 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 192.
Cohort: Sparkling · Francia
