Red · Lirac · France
Domaine Lafond Lirac Roc-Epine
Scored from 925 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
“Lovely Lirac from last weekend’s party with friends. Certified organic, blend of 60% Grenache, 30% Syrah, 5% each Mouvedre and Carignan. Ruby-violet. Black cherry, raspberries, plum, lavender, thyme and pepper.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It is blend of 70% Grenache and 30% Syrah, this has wonderful spice and cherry on the nose, with a touch of polished wood and aniseed. The palate is rich with sweeter fruit, a lovely black pepper flavour and a dry finish. Just across the river from Chateauneuf du Pape, this is excellent value for money.
Domaine Lafond Lirac Roc-Epine is a French red from Lirac. The blend is Grenache Noir and Shiraz Syrah.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,133 other reds from France, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 925 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 967 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 Lafond Lirac Roc-Epine 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 925.
