White · Hérault · France
Mas Gabinèle (Thierry Rodriguez) Rarissime Blanc
Scored from 48 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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Tasting profile
A powerful, full-bodied white from old-vine Grenache Gris, showing smoky, toasted notes with vanilla and butter from oak alongside pear, pineapple, and floral aromatics. Dry and rich with herbal and peppery accents, it finishes round and long, a distinctive and characterful wine.
Synthesized from 48Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“100% grenache gris sur des vieilles vignes. Notes grillées, vanille et beurre d’élevage. Notes végétales, menthe, sauge, curry. Un corps puissant. Un vin assez unique”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Mas Gabinèle (Thierry Rodriguez) Rarissime Blanc is a French white from Hérault.
48 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 49 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 7,335 other whites 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 Mas Gabinèle (Thierry Rodriguez) Rarissime Blanc 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 48.
