Red · Côtes de Thongue · France
Domaine de l'Arjolle Equinoxe Cabernet - Syrah
Scored from 263 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · France (1,134 wines).
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What reviewers say
“🍇 Cabernet Sauvignon 70%, Syrah 30%. 👁️ Deep dark red. 👃 Needs a little breathing space and then he'll open up completely. Blackberry, cassis, cherry, liquorice, herbs, some leather and tobacco. 👅 And what a great combination of these two classic grapes. Pure Cabernet in the mouth which is beautiful complemented by the Syrah in the finish with a distinct spiciness. 1+1= 3 in this combo. QPR 👌🏻 🎓 My score: 4,1⭐”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Domaine de l'Arjolle Equinoxe Cabernet - Syrah is a French red from Côtes de Thongue.
263 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 270 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,134 French reds.
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 Domaine de l'Arjolle Equinoxe Cabernet - Syrah 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 · France (1,134 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 263.
