Red · Jerusalem · Israel
Domaine du Castel Petit Castel
Scored from 1,036 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Israel (2 wines).
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What reviewers say
“A cuvée of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot grapes from the Yad Hashmona vineyard, west of Jerusalem at ~750m altitude. Fermented in steel tanks, aged for 12 months in French oak barrels, then 4 months in concrete tanks.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Lovely fresh, fruity nose. Fresh plums and violets taste. Delicious young drinking.
Domaine du Castel Petit Castel is a red from Jerusalem, Israel. At $64.19 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band. It blends Ugni Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
1 other reds from Israel form the cohort it is ranked inside. 1,036 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 1,089 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 Domaine du Castel Petit Castel 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 · Israel (2 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 1,036.
