Red · Minervois · France
Le Grand Noir Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 2,472 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
“Quite youthful, yet mellow and quaffable 85/15 CS/Syrah, aged in oak for 6 months. Dense garnet, nearly violet color. Purple rim. Sweet medium(+) intensity nose of cassis, blue fig, prunes, blackberry marmalade, light whiff of kersey and black pepper. Pop-styled palate.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The blend of rich blackcurranty Cabernet and brambley, gently peppery Syrah makes this a very distinctive wine. The vanilla character of the oak is present but subtle, and the tannins are softer than in many Cabernets. A very luxurious drink; silky and satisfying.
Le Grand Noir Cabernet Sauvignon is a red from Minervois, France, blended from Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz Syrah. At $12.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the under $15 band.
1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 2,472 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,629 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 Le Grand Noir Cabernet Sauvignon 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 2,472.
