Red · Apalta Valley · Chile
Lapostolle Cuvée Alexandre Carmenère Apalta Vineyard
Scored from 2,676 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
“Rojo brillante de capa media alta, con bordes violeta. Fruta negra madura, con toques achocolatados y especiados, final de pimentón verde muy marcado. Aterciopelado en boca, de taninos domados, bastante equilibrado y simple.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Intense purple red color. On the nose the wine is complex, with red and black fruit such as maqui berry and spices such as red pepper, vanilla and dill. The wine offers medium acidity and round tannins with fruit such as sarsaparilla and maqui berry. Medium long finish.
Lapostolle Cuvée Alexandre Carmenère Apalta Vineyard is Carmenere grown in Apalta Valley, bottled as a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $30.37, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 443 other reds from Chile, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 2,676 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,746 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 Carmenère Apalta Vineyard 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 2,676.
