White · Chablis 1er Cru 'Montee de Tonnerre' · France
Jean-Paul & Benoit Droin Chablis Premier Cru 'Montée de Tonnerre'
Scored from 667 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, mineral-driven Chablis with zingy acidity, a touch of licorice and subtle oak, balanced by a rounder, slightly buttery side and a hint of sweetness on a long, lingering finish. Floral on the nose and structured enough to age, yet drinking beautifully now.
Synthesized from 667Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Vin exceptionnel Tout est présent Nez floral Bouche à la fois sur la fraîcheur et sur le gras Petites notes beurrées”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has lemon curd, slate, seashore, spices and caramel on the nose and palate. Ripe and powerful with firm structure and good length. Comes across as something of a mix between a classic Chablis and a Côte d’Or Chardonnay. Very enjoyable, but may well disappoint if you're religious about understated, steely and un-oaked Chablis.
Jean-Paul & Benoit Droin Chablis Premier Cru 'Montée de Tonnerre' is a French white made from Chardonnay. It sits in the $120-and-up band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $130. It is bottled in Chablis 1er Cru 'Montee de Tonnerre'.
667 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 675 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 7,335 other whites from France form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Jean-Paul & Benoit Droin Chablis Premier Cru 'Montée de Tonnerre' 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 667.
