Fortified · Champagne · France
Vilmart & Cie Ratafia
Scored from 65 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · France (205 wines).
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Tasting profile
A rich, sweet dessert wine made from unfermented Pinot Noir (or Chardonnay) fortified with brandy, showing flavors of honey, caramel, butterscotch, candied fruit, fig, toasted almonds, and vanilla. Smooth and full-bodied with a spiced, balanced finish that pairs well with desserts.
Synthesized from 65Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Delicious sweet wine liqueur perfect way to finish the evening.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Vilmart & Cie Ratafia is a French fortified wine from Champagne.
65 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 65 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 205 French fortified wines.
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 Vilmart & Cie Ratafia 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 Fortified · France (205 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 65.
Cohort: Fortified · France
