Red · Châteauneuf-du-Pape · France
M. Chapoutier Châteauneuf-du-Pape Barbe Rac
Scored from 703 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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Tasting profile
A spicy, full-bodied Chateauneuf-du-Pape showing dark and floral berry fruit, dried fig, pepper, and hints of chocolate and caramel, with woodsy, violet-tinged aromatics. The palate is ripe and silky with firm tannin and a long finish, drinking well now.
Synthesized from 703Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Whirlwind of spice is the best description yet of s CDP. This one is hard to tame bug so enjoyable.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
M. Chapoutier Châteauneuf-du-Pape Barbe Rac is a French red from Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,134 French reds. The calibrated figure is built from 703 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 716 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 M. Chapoutier Châteauneuf-du-Pape Barbe Rac 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 703.
