Red · Châteauneuf-du-Pape · França
M. Chapoutier Châteauneuf-du-Pape Croix De Bois
Scored from 613 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · França (54 wines).
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Tasting profile
A powerful, well-balanced red showing dark berries, dried plums, cherry and cassis alongside floral lavender and violet notes, with chocolate accents and fine, slightly leathery tannins. Rich and full-bodied with great structure and a long tannic finish, it drinks superbly now and pairs well with game.
Synthesized from 613Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Beautiful lavender, violets and chocolate on the nose; cherry, cassis and a fine tannin laden hug in the finish. Drinking superbly and will peak in 3-5 years.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Châteauneuf-du-Pape in France, M. Chapoutier Châteauneuf-du-Pape Croix De Bois is a red. It sits in the $60–120 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $115.
The calibrated figure is built from 613 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 619 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 53 other reds 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 M. Chapoutier Châteauneuf-du-Pape Croix De Bois 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 · França (54 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 613.
