Red · Côtes-du-Rhône-Villages · France
Lavau Côtes du Rhône Villages
Scored from 601 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · France (1,134 wines).
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What reviewers say
“$8.99 at Costco...Damn 👍 for the price! Big minerality notes, earth, sour cherry & red berry, scorched toffee...faint engine burn. Initial pop of acidity is smoothed out with a soft, rounded mouthfeel & silky tannins. Tart jammy fruit-forward.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep ruby in colour with aromas of cherries and plums, with floral, spicy and dried fruit notes. On the palate, the wine is dry and medium-bodied, with balanced acidity and tannic structure. It shows flavours of dark plum and cherries with spicy and earthy notes on a medium-length finish.
Lavau Côtes du Rhône Villages is a French red from Côtes-du-Rhône-Villages. At $18.00 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band. The blend is Grenache Noir and Shiraz Syrah.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,133 other reds from France, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 601 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 618 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Lavau Côtes du Rhône Villages 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 Red · France (1,134 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 601.
