Sparkling · Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' · França
De Sousa Cuvée des Caudalies Le Mesnil Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize'
Scored from 42 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · França (176 wines).
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Tasting profile
A mineral, chalky Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs showing ripe yellow orchard fruit, citrus and honeyed depth alongside subtle oxidative and bready notes of marzipan, sherry and rugbrod. Fine-beaded and concentrated with crisp acidity, excellent structure and a long, faintly bitter saline finish.
Synthesized from 42Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Ragazzi, qui si vola molto alto, non ho la data di sboccatura ma le sensazioni evolutive sono appena percettibili, c'è invece un miele che ti tiene per mano e ti aiuta ad attraversare la ricchezza tagliente e minerale di questa super cuvée. Nel finale pressoché interminabile una nota amarognola la posiziona di diritto nell'albo delle grandi bolle gastronomiche.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
De Sousa Cuvée des Caudalies Le Mesnil Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' is a sparkling wine from Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize', France.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 176 French sparkling wines. 42 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 43 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 De Sousa Cuvée des Caudalies Le Mesnil Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' 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 · França (176 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 42.
Cohort: Sparkling · França
