White · Puligny-Montrachet · Frankreich
Francois Carillon Le Clos du Vieux Château Puligny-Montrachet
Scored from 153 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Frankreich (687 wines).
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Tasting profile
A complex, well-balanced white showing pear, lemon, and citrus fruit alongside cream, butter, brioche, vanilla, and oak, all framed by flinty minerality and crisp acidity. The nose is perfumed and the finish long, making it a versatile match for sushi, oysters, and seafood platters.
Synthesized from 153Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Fantastic nose & palate with Oyster pasta. citrus pear touch initially. Decanting 30min on decanter, vanilla butter oak cream minerals followed. Good balanced chardonay. I love montrachet.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Puligny-Montrachet in France, Francois Carillon Le Clos du Vieux Château Puligny-Montrachet is a white.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 687 French whites. The calibrated figure is built from 153 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 155 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 Francois Carillon Le Clos du Vieux Château Puligny-Montrachet 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 · Frankreich (687 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 153.
