White · Sancerre · France
Domaine Delaporte Sancerre Chavignol Blanc
Scored from 1,796 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · France (7,336 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Our Bar Willow Wine Club wine of the month back last summer. I figured it’s time had come but after searching the bottle labels there is no indication what kind of wine it was other than red? Enter Vivino which didn’t know either.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Light peach and flint nose with a touch of polished lemon. Great delicacy evident from the kumquat, rose water and lychee on the palate, backed up by biting minerality.
Domaine Delaporte Sancerre Chavignol Blanc is a white from Sancerre, France, made from Sauvignon Blanc. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $33.95, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 7,335 other whites from France, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 1,796 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,851 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Delaporte Sancerre Chavignol Blanc 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 White · France (7,336 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 1,796.
