Red · Barbera d'Alba · Italia
Barale Fratelli Castlé Barbera d'Alba
Scored from 453 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italia (235 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Barbera d'Alba "Castle'" 2020. BARALE F.lli di BARALE SERGIO Siamo di fronte a una Barbera di altissima classe, un rosso rubino intenso con riflessi violacei si apre al naso con frutta rossa, ciliegie e amarene, poi frutta di bosco, cenni di erbe aromatiche, note terrosi appena accennate, cenni speziati ed eterei. Al sorso è maestosa fresca, sapido con una lunghezza importante e un finale caldo e appagante. Una Barbera che ti riempe la bocca e che non smetteresti mai di bere”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Barbera d'Alba in Italy, Barale Fratelli Castlé Barbera d'Alba is a red.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 235 Italian reds. The calibrated figure is built from 453 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 464 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 Barale Fratelli Castlé Barbera d'Alba 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 · Italia (235 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 453.
