Sparkling · Champagne · France
Thienot Black Ball Blanc de Blancs Champagne
Scored from 20 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 delicate, smooth Blanc de Blancs marked by brioche, yeast, and toasted notes alongside green apple, pear, apricot, and hazelnut, with fine sparse bubbles and bright acidity. Reviewers describe it as refreshing and ethereal, finishing long with a deep gold hue.
Synthesized from 20Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“brioche, lovely straw hues, ethereal bubbles, apparently purchased at an Alicia Keys charity event. Happy New Years 2017!!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Thienot Black Ball Blanc de Blancs Champagne is a French sparkling wine from Champagne.
Only 20 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 20 reviewers with at least two ratings feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 2,765 other sparkling wines from France, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Thienot Black Ball Blanc de Blancs 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 20.
Cohort: Sparkling · France
