Red · Apalta Valley · Chile
Lapostolle Cuvée Alexandre Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 3,480 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Chile (444 wines).
Find this wine: view on Vivino · compare prices on Wine-Searcher
What reviewers say
“Presenta un color rojo rubí profundo. Aromas expresivos de frutas negras maduras como cassis, moras y ciruelas, acompañadas de notas de tabaco, especias dulces, grafito y un sutil toque de chocolate amargo, aportado por la crianza en roble francés.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Color: Deep red with dark purple hints. Nose: Dense nose full of black and red fruit aromas such as plums; dry tea leaves and tobacco flavors. Palate: Good tannic structure. Concentrated body with balance and length. Round mid palate with a long lasting finish.
Lapostolle Cuvée Alexandre Cabernet Sauvignon is a Chilean red from Apalta Valley. At $19.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
443 other reds from Chile form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 3,480 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,564 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 Cuvée Alexandre Cabernet Sauvignon 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 3,480.
