White · Sancerre · France
Gérard Boulay Clos de Beaujeu Sancerre
Scored from 425 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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What reviewers say
“This is “proppa(!)” Sancerre, bristling with intent and tension, I opened this on a 27 degree Friday afternoon assuming it would be a zingy and zesty thirst quencher but it’s altogether more serious than that.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ripe, exotic nose of grapefruit, melon, and sweet floral essences. A lush and juicy, with striking creaminess of texture and a polished finish.
Gérard Boulay Clos de Beaujeu Sancerre is a French white made from Sauvignon Blanc. It comes from Sancerre, in France. At $74.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band.
425 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 432 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 7,336 French whites.
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 Gérard Boulay Clos de Beaujeu Sancerre 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 425.
