Red · Barbaresco · Italy
Castello di Verduno Rabajà Barbaresco
Scored from 523 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italy (947 wines).
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What reviewers say
“BOOM 💥! What an exceptional perfume! Garnet with copper rim, little sediment in the glass. Aromas of cherry, rose, plum, violet & chocolate. Unctuous in the mouth. Perfect poured straight from the bottle. Pomegranate, spicy tobacco, hints of earth & truffle.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This wine is garnet red color of great intensity. It opens on notes of ripe raspberries with mineral notes, herbaceous conifer. Good structure and firm tannins.Long finish.
Castello di Verduno Rabajà Barbaresco is Nebbiolo grown in Barbaresco, bottled as a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $73.59, which puts the bottle in the $60–120 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 947 Italian reds. The calibrated figure is built from 523 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 531 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 Castello di Verduno Rabajà Barbaresco 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 · Italy (947 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 523.
