Red · Beaumes-de-Venise · France
Xavier Vignon Arcane l'Étoile
Scored from 336 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · France (1,134 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Deep ruby purple in color with an aromatic nose of rich black fruit compote, oak, menthol. Tastes of blackberry, black raspberry, mulberry, black plums. Well balanced blend of 70% Grenache, 20% Syrah and 10% Mourvedre with a bit of Viognier skins. From 2015-16-17.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Xavier Vignon Arcane l'Étoile is Grenache Noir grown in Beaumes-de-Venise, bottled as a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $35.99, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 336 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 348 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,134 French reds.
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 Xavier Vignon Arcane l'Étoile 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 Red · France (1,134 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 336.
