White · Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru · France
Joseph Drouhin Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru
Scored from 127 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 pale gold, oak-framed white Burgundy with viscous body yet elegant balance, showing notes of passion fruit, honey, vanilla, quince and caramel alongside floral perfume. Ripe sweetness is held in check by firm, juicy acidity that carries through a very long, classic finish.
Synthesized from 127Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“It is light or rather pale Amber. It has a classic old school burgundy with oaky nose. It has some tastiness on the front palate and oak. It has a nice long finish. My style. I love it.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The golden colour has bright reflections. After some aeration, the aromas reveal their rich intensity: grilled bread, almond, honey, exotic wood.
From Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru in France, Joseph Drouhin Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru is a white. It sits in the $120-and-up band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $700. It is made from Chardonnay.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 7,336 French whites. 127 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 132 reviewers with at least two ratings each 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 Joseph Drouhin Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru 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 127.
