Red · Châteauneuf-du-Pape · France
Pierre Usseglio Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Scored from 1,591 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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What reviewers say
“One would like to say that the wine is young, fresh and vigorous and my only complaint is that there are too many ripe fruits in it. Can you imagine - 18 year old wine and it holds so well with all kinds of fruits both in smell and taste?”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The outstanding 2003 Chateauneuf du Pape Tradition is a full-bodied, peppery wine that oozes the character of Provence with its notes of lavender, herbes de Provence, and sweet black cherries and raspberries. Some licorice, saddle leather, and salty sea breeze notes also make it into the character of this full-bodied, concentrated wine which is silky enough to be drunk now or cellared for 10-12 years.
Pierre Usseglio Châteauneuf-du-Pape is a red from Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France. It is made from Grenache Noir. At $57.89 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band.
1,591 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 1,623 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Usseglio 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 1,591.
