Sparkling · Beechworth · Australia
Castagna Sparkling Genesis
Scored from 38 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · Australia (378 wines).
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Tasting profile
A dark garnet sparkling Shiraz showing plum, blueberry, blackberry and cherry layered with aniseed, black tea, raisin, toast and graphite, plus savoury herbal and garrigue notes. Intense, focused and impeccably balanced with a very fine, persistent bead and a long dry finish.
Synthesized from 38Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Elegant aniseed, blueberry, blackberry, cherry, black tea, raisins, toast, graphite. Impeccable balance. Long dry finish. Very fine bead. A magnificent sparkling Shiraz which is the epitome of this style.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Castagna Sparkling Genesis is an Australian sparkling wine from Beechworth.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 378 Australian sparkling wines. Only 38 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 39 reviewers with at least two ratings feeds the raw-average track.
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 Castagna Sparkling Genesis 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 Sparkling · Australia (378 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 38.
Cohort: Sparkling · Australia
