Red · Brunello di Montalcino · Italien
Casalino Brunello di Montalcino
Scored from 672 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italien (289 wines).
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What reviewers say
“This is AMAZING! At the time I purchased for under $40 and for that value? This is INCREDIBLE!! This is quintessential Brunello… that beautiful cherry and leather that you experience is just PERFECT! Close your eyes and you know this is Brunello all the way!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The wine is ruby red with garnet hues, with a generous nose with hints of violets and vanilla and a robust, velvety flavour.
Casalino Brunello di Montalcino is Sangiovese grown in Brunello di Montalcino, bottled as a red.
The calibrated figure is built from 672 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 691 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 288 other reds from Italy form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Casalino Brunello di Montalcino 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 · Italien (289 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 672.
