Red · Chianti Rùfina · Italy
Castello Nipozzano Chianti Rùfina Riserva
Scored from 15,295 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
“Gustato insieme ad una succosa tartare è stato un ottimo abbinamento. Rosso rubino intenso con riflessi violacei, limpido e consistente. Al naso intenso, complesso e fine.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ruby-red with good consistencey. The nose opens with a strong fruit component of blackberry, blueberry and cherry. Sweet notes of cotton candy and spicy notes of cloves and nutmeg follow. The tannins are dense, but not harsh. The palate is warm and smooth, lovely persistence and remarkable taste-olfactory correspondence.
From Chianti Rùfina in Italy, Castello Nipozzano Chianti Rùfina Riserva is a red. At $20.69 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band. It is made from Sangiovese.
15,295 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 15,762 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 947 Italian reds.
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 Nipozzano Chianti Rùfina Riserva 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 15,295.
