Red · Côte-Rôtie · Frankreich
Pierre Gaillard Côte-Rôtie
Scored from 940 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Frankreich (147 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Quel plaisir de le retrouver pour les fêtes ! Ouvert 3 à 4 heures avant le repas.Le nez est expressif avec des fragrances de fruits rouges, de sous-bois, de mines de crayon et de chêne. La robe est rouge aux reflets noirs. En bouche, la texture est veloutée.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This aromatic and deliciously textured Côte-Rôtie is a blend of Syrah from Viallière in the north and Beton in the south. It comes from a parcel at Fongeant on the Côte Blonde and has 10% Viognier in the blend. All the fruit is harvested by hand with a strict selection so that only the ripest bunches and berries make it into the final blend. It is 100% destemmed and the vinification is traditional with long skin contact and regular punch downs and pumping over. The wine then spends 18 months in barrique. It has an almost Burgundian set of characteristics about it; very aromatic, with violet, blackberry and underlying spice notes, a creamy palate with round tannins and then a crisp, aromatic close. A delightful Côte-Rôtie that is already drinking well.
Pierre Gaillard Côte-Rôtie is a red from Côte-Rôtie, France. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $56.95, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band. It is made from Shiraz Syrah.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 147 French reds. 940 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 959 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Pierre Gaillard Côte-Rôtie 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 · Frankreich (147 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 940.
