Sparkling · Sussex · United Kingdom
Roebuck Blanc de Noirs
Scored from 94 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · United Kingdom (193 wines).
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Tasting profile
Dry but never sharp, this blanc de noirs leans on ripe apple, apricot and peach with hints of strawberry, raspberry and plum, lifted by citrus freshness and a touch of yeasty, vanilla-pastry richness. Bubbles are well-judged and the mouthfeel is silky and enveloping, with a lingering finish that reviewers say ages well.
Synthesized from 94Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Even better than the flagship cuvee. Dry but not in the slightest sharp. Worth seeking out.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Roebuck Blanc de Noirs is a British sparkling wine from Sussex.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 193 British sparkling wines. 94 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 94 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 Roebuck 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 · United Kingdom (193 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 94.
Cohort: Sparkling · United Kingdom
