Red · Central Valley · Chile
Casillero del Diablo Merlot (Reserva)
Scored from 11,972 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Chile (444 wines).
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What reviewers say
“From the first sniff, you're greeted with pleasant smoky aromas, accompanied by a hint of spice. These smoky notes carry through on the palate, adding an intriguing depth to the wine.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Intense and deep. chocolate aromas, black plums, blackberries and spices, with hints of vanilla and smoke. Saborde medium body, soft tannins, enveloping texture and a long, pleasant finish.
Casillero del Diablo Merlot (Reserva) is a Chilean red from Central Valley. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $14.95, which puts the bottle in the under $15 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 443 other reds from Chile, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 11,972 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 12,642 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 Casillero del Diablo Merlot (Reserva) 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 · Chile (444 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 11,972.
