Sparkling · Champagne · France
Taittinger Millésimé Brut Champagne
Scored from 2,878 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
Bright citrus aromatics lead into a delicate, almost continuous perlage, with reviewers noting fresh white-grape sweetness and a subtle yeasty edge. The finish runs notably long, leaving an impression of elegance and refinement rather than heft.
Synthesized from 2,878Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Muitas frutas cítricas aparentes e com um final longíssimo. Também tem perlage fina e abundante. Espetacular! Salut!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has aromatic intensity. After the first floral notes, in which we can make out a hint of honeysuckle, come riper fruity and generous fragrances of raisins and hot and honeyed fruits such as greengage plums.
Taittinger Millésimé Brut Champagne is Pinot Noir grown in Champagne, bottled as a sparkling wine.
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 2,878 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,916 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 Taittinger Millésimé Brut Champagne 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 2,878.
Cohort: Sparkling · France
