White · Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru · France
Domaine Michel Niellon Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru
Scored from 156 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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Tasting profile
A complex, full-bodied white Burgundy showing lemon-yellow color with aromas of yuzu, pear, peach, honey, brioche and tropical fruit, layered with creamy vanilla oak and exotic mineral and spice notes. Crisp, well-balanced acidity carries it to a long, lingering finish that reviewers repeatedly call an archetypal Chardonnay experience.
Synthesized from 156Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Lemon yellow. High acid, crisp. Intense Yuzu, pear and peach aromas and stone. Persistent finish. Dry. Perfect with foie gras.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru in France, Domaine Michel Niellon Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru is a white.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 7,335 other whites from France, not against the corpus as a whole. 156 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 156 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 Michel Niellon Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru 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 156.
