Red · Castillon - Côtes de Bordeaux · France
Domaine de l'Aurage Castillon - Côtes de Bordeaux
Scored from 1,747 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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Tasting profile
A classic Bordeaux-style blend that reviewers describe as impressive and food-friendly, pairing especially well with steak. Notes mention earthy and sea-like character, blackberry fruit, undergrowth, and barrel influence, with a striking length on the palate and an unexpected hint of sweetness.
Synthesized from 1,747Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“I had this wine at a vino in Strasbourg, France. Absolutely blew me away. It went fantastic with the steak dinner I ordered.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Castillon - Côtes de Bordeaux in France, Domaine de l'Aurage Castillon - Côtes de Bordeaux is a red.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,134 French reds. 1,747 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 1,794 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 Domaine de l'Aurage Castillon - Côtes de Bordeaux 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 1,747.
