Sparkling · Champagne · France
Francis Orban Cuvée Parcellaire Les Malaquais Chardonnay Champagne
Scored from 14 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · France (2,766 wines).
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Tasting profile
A rich, creamy blanc de blancs with pronounced yeasty, bready notes and a brioche nose, layered with citrus, grapefruit, ripe apple, pear, and hints of honey and white blossom. Dry and full on the palate with high acidity, a chalky minerality, and a long finish that some reviewers feel will benefit from further aging.
Synthesized from 14Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Delicious 100% Chardonnay from Orban. Beautiful richness and nice yeasty notes. Acidity was a little too high for my liking, should probably age for at least 5-10 more years to really balance out”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Francis Orban Cuvée Parcellaire Les Malaquais Chardonnay Champagne is a sparkling wine from Champagne, France.
2,765 other sparkling wines from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 14 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 14 reviewers with at least two ratings 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 Francis Orban Cuvée Parcellaire Les Malaquais Chardonnay Champagne 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 Sparkling · France (2,766 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 14.
Cohort: Sparkling · France
