Red · Toscana · Italy
Castello Nipozzano Montesodi Toscana
Scored from 1,436 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
“Vintage 2010 tasted spring 2017. Nose is dense but lifted and elegant, showing fruit a la sour cherry and wild strawberries, accented by a slight herby note, maybe white pepper. Also notes of lightly smoked bacon and a floral perfume coming through.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A deep ruby precedes a nose rich in well-ripened fruit, with blueberry, redcurrant, and cherry well in evidence, enhanced by floral notes of sweet violets and smooth vanilla, tobacco leaf, and cocoa. In the mouth it is intense, velvety, and well balanced.
Castello Nipozzano Montesodi Toscana is a red from Toscana, Italy, made from Sangiovese. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $52.46.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 946 other reds from Italy, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 1,436 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,473 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 Nipozzano Montesodi Toscana 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 1,436.
