Sparkling · Champagne · France
Krug Clos d'Ambonnay
Scored from 242 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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Tasting profile
A structured, elegantly balanced Champagne showing amber color, a toasty nose, and red fruit notes of cherry, raspberry, and sweet plum alongside hints of pear and black truffle. Still tightly wound and high-acid in youth, it reads more as a pinnacle Krug vintage in the making than a wine to drink now.
Synthesized from 242Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Will be amazing, but tasting so young. Cherry, raspberry and sweet plum. In 15 years likely to be mind blowing”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Krug Clos d'Ambonnay is a French sparkling wine from Champagne.
242 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 252 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 2,765 other sparkling wines from France, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Krug Clos d'Ambonnay 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 242.
Cohort: Sparkling · France
