Sparkling · Champagne · France
Pierre Paillard Les Maillerettes Bouzy Grand Cru Blanc de Noirs
Scored from 210 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · France (2,766 wines).
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Tasting profile
A complex, dry blanc de noirs with fine perlage and a rich, creamy, yeasty body lifted by citrus, apple, and grapefruit freshness. Aeration reveals red-fruit pinot noir character, toasted brioche and cinnamon notes, and a mineral, well-balanced finish with good length.
Synthesized from 210Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Happiness in a bottle. Perfect way to celebrate graduating business school. It’s light, but interesting with citrus and apple and the perfect balance of bubbles”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Pierre Paillard Les Maillerettes Bouzy Grand Cru Blanc de Noirs is a French sparkling wine from Champagne.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 2,765 other sparkling wines from France, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 210 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 211 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 Pierre Paillard Les Maillerettes Bouzy Grand Cru Blanc de Noirs 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 Sparkling · France (2,766 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 210.
Cohort: Sparkling · France
