Sparkling · Schaumwein · Frankreich
Veuve Clicquot Vintage Reserve Brut Champagne
Scored from 196 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · Frankreich (376 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Dry, green apple, pear, crisp, very fizzy. Received another bottle from Will’s boss and it just as delicious as I remember. Drank it for Mother’s Day 2023.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Veuve Clicquot Vintage Reserve Brut Champagne is a sparkling wine from Schaumwein, France.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 375 other sparkling wines from France, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 196 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 197 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 Veuve Clicquot Vintage Reserve 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 · Frankreich (376 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 196.
Cohort: Sparkling · Frankreich
