Red · Apalta Valley · Chile
Lapostolle Cuvée Alexandre Merlot
Scored from 2,008 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
“Definitivamente no es una cepa de mi preferencia, pero cuando uno se encuentra con un vino como este Lapostolle Cuvée Alexandre Merlot añada 2015, del Valle de Apalta, todo se relativiza. Gran ejemplar que me encantó. Al ojo es rojo ciruela intenso y brillante.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ruby red colour with aromas of red fruit such as raspberry and strawberry with fresh herbs aromas and earthy toast notes. Medium bodied wine with a silky texture, with round and juicy tannins. Cassis and coffee beans notes provide the finish.
Lapostolle Cuvée Alexandre Merlot is a Chilean red from Apalta Valley. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $29.35.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 444 Chilean reds. The calibrated figure is built from 2,008 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,046 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 Merlot 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 2,008.
