White · Pays d'Oc · France
Le Grand Noir Chardonnay
Scored from 4,324 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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What reviewers say
“vintage 2023 Igp mainly from langedoc-rousillion area 85% chardonnay 15% viognier, 30%chardonnay in oak viognier unoaked.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Chardonnays come in many styles, from light and minerally to rich, buttery and oaky. We wanted to make a Chardonnay that was satisfying, yet fresh, and with a sufficiently interesting flavour to capture the imagination. From the outset, it was crucial that it would be a great accompaniment to food. This is a fresh, pine-appley wine, with a subtle hint of oak and a touch of mango and ginger
From Pays d'Oc in France, Le Grand Noir Chardonnay is a white. It sits in the under $15 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $13.99.
7,335 other whites from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 4,324 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 4,596 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 Chardonnay 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 4,324.
