Sparkling · Franciacorta · Italy
Contadi Castaldi Franciacorta Brut
Scored from 2,670 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · Italy (1,313 wines).
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What reviewers say
“3 styles of 🇮🇹 Franciacorta by Contadi Castaldi. Their NV Brut is a blend of 🍇 80% Chardonnay, 10% Pinot Nero and 10% Pinot Bianco, aged for 20-26 months on the lees, 6g/l dosage. Pale lemon color, persistent perlage.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has straw yellow color with green tints, animated by a fine and persistent. The nose is fresh, with floral notes of lime, citrus shades, white and green pepper fishing. The mouth is tight and crisp, fresh, vertical, with savory grain, fine and prolonged in the final very enjoyable.
From Franciacorta in Italy, Contadi Castaldi Franciacorta Brut is a sparkling wine. It blends Chardonnay and Pinot Nero. At $32.50 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band.
1,312 other sparkling wines from Italy form the cohort it is ranked inside. 2,670 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 2,718 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 Contadi Castaldi Franciacorta Brut 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 Sparkling · Italy (1,313 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 2,670.
Cohort: Sparkling · Italy
