Red · 薩倫托 · 意大利
Castello Monaci Primitivo Salento Pilùna
Scored from 3,420 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · 意大利 (5 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Het Pugliaanse wijnhuis Castello Monaci, dat monniken kasteel betekent, is gevestigd in een 16e-eeuws kasteel dat (hoe kan het ook anders) ooit door monniken werd gebruikt.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Dark crimson-red colour; full bouquet of ripe grapes, with notes of pepper and vanilla and hints of Mediterranean scrub; robust, concentrated, soft but very firm flavour with an elegant, lingering aftertaste of small black fruits conserve and liquorice.
Castello Monaci Primitivo Salento Pilùna is an Italian red from 薩倫托. It sits in the under $15 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $11.60.
3,420 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 3,551 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 4 other reds from Italy, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Monaci Primitivo Salento Pilùna 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 · 意大利 (5 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 3,420.
