Sparkling · Champagne · France
H. Billiot & Fils Essence de Billiot Champagne
Scored from 24 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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What reviewers say
“The COTN (champagne not wine 😆). Again a very refined and elegant. It had mild citrus notes with an oak nose. Wonderful Champagne and the flagship of the producer. Paired well with the seafood mains we had.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Champagne in France, H. Billiot & Fils Essence de Billiot Champagne is a sparkling wine.
Only 24 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 24 reviewers with at least two ratings feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 2,766 French sparkling wines.
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 H. Billiot & Fils Essence de Billiot 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 24.
Cohort: Sparkling · France
