Red · Châteauneuf-du-Pape · France
Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape (La Crau)
Scored from 6,503 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
“Lighter than a cab in color and taste, but the taste was earthy and complex. Could easily have with red meat. Really liked it.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep ruby with some purple nuances, this wine is medium to full-bodied and reveals notes of licorice, pepper, Asian spices, black cherry, raspberry, and currant, as well as a relatively big, sweet palate impression with moderate tannin in the finish.
From Châteauneuf-du-Pape in France, Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape (La Crau) is a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $119, which puts the bottle in the $60–120 band. It blends Grenache Noir, Mourvedre, Cinsault and Shiraz Syrah.
6,503 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 6,653 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,133 other reds from France, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape (La Crau) 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 6,503.
