Red · Châteauneuf-du-Pape · France
Mas Saint Louis Les Arpents des Contrebandiers Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Scored from 277 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 full-bodied, fruit-forward Chateauneuf-du-Pape with a smoky, powerful character and a notably long finish, showing layered aromas of red fruit like raspberry alongside tobacco, leather, vanilla, chocolate, mushroom and cedar. Reviewers find it complex, elegant and well-balanced, drinking beautifully right now.
Synthesized from 277Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Je l’aime beaucoup. C’est un vin très équilibré. Il peut se marier avec tout type de plat !! Vraiment top”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ruby crimson colour Aromas of red fruits with smoky notes Ample with fine tannins. Harmonious and fruity.
Mas Saint Louis Les Arpents des Contrebandiers Châteauneuf-du-Pape is a French red from Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The blend is Grenache Noir, Mourvedre, Cinsault and Shiraz Syrah.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,134 French reds. The calibrated figure is built from 277 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 283 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 Mas Saint Louis Les Arpents des Contrebandiers Châteauneuf-du-Pape 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 277.
