Red · Apalta Valley · Chile
Lapostolle Apalta Red
Scored from 1,806 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Chile (444 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Meatballs & potatoes Dinner at home, 24.05.24 Just popped & poured. Inky purple color, intense nose of blackberries, ripe plum and roasted spices cinnamon, clove.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Lapostolle Apalta Red is a Chilean red from Apalta Valley. At $21.95 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band. The blend is Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Carmenere and Petit Verdot.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 444 Chilean reds. The calibrated figure is built from 1,806 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,844 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 Lapostolle Apalta Red 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 · Chile (444 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 1,806.
