Red · Südtirol - Alto Adige · Italy
Colterenzio (Schreckbichl) Cornelius Merlot - Cabernet
Scored from 249 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
“A little „helper-through-the-week“ from Alto Adige. A blend of 80% Merlot and 20% CS. Still a bit young, medium bodied and dry. But as almost always, the wines from Alto Adige simply taste good, 3,9⭐️.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep red in colour; with a bouquet of ripe berry fruit, cassis and a hint of well integrated oak; black cherries and spices on the palate, underpinned by assertive but supple tannins; full-bodied, fine balanced, rich and long.
From Südtirol - Alto Adige in Italy, Colterenzio (Schreckbichl) Cornelius Merlot - Cabernet is a red. It blends Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
249 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 258 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 946 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 Colterenzio (Schreckbichl) Cornelius Merlot - Cabernet 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 249.
