Red · Haute Vallee de l'Aude · Frankreich
Pure Altitude Pinot Noir
Scored from 95 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
“Rich, southern Pinot noir. Again clay dust (probably corresponding with clay-limestone terroir), earthy tones, licorice, and red fruit like cherry or wild strawberry only in the background, on palate spark flint minerality, spiciness, almost appropriate sourness, and with essential, low residual sugars. James Suckling saw it at 88 pts - in coincidence with my rating, just below 90 pts. Skyhigh QPR.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Haute Vallee de l'Aude in France, Pure Altitude Pinot Noir is a red.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 147 French reds. The calibrated figure is built from 95 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 95 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 Pure Altitude Pinot Noir 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 95.
