Red · Chianti Classico · Italy
Castelvecchi Lodolaio Chianti Classico Riserva
Scored from 493 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
“Grapes: Sangiovese 100% Classico Riserva "Lodolaio" is an elegant and full-bodied red wine that is aged for one year in first passage barriques and aged for a long time in the bottle.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Colour is deep ruby red, with light garnet-red shades.Bouquet is complex, typical with fruity notes evolving in a delicate bouquet of spices.Taste is intense, well-structured, elegantly tannic with a great balance.
Castelvecchi Lodolaio Chianti Classico Riserva is an Italian red made from Sangiovese. It sits in the $120-and-up band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $268. The vineyard region is Chianti Classico, Italy.
946 other reds from Italy form the cohort it is ranked inside. 493 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 515 reviewers with at least two ratings each 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 Castelvecchi Lodolaio Chianti Classico 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 493.
