White · Marche · Italie
Maria Pia Castelli Stella Flora
Scored from 372 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Italie (438 wines).
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Tasting profile
A complex, evolved white that drinks almost like a red, with a rich nose of honey, burnt caramel, toffee, and vanilla leading into a full, persistent palate with balanced sapidity. Finely crafted and singular - challenging but rewarding, with comparisons drawn to great Burgundy and Chateau-Chalon.
Synthesized from 372Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Un grand vin! Complexité et finesse digne d'un grand bourgogne, arômes tertiaires dignes d'un château Châlon. Superbe découverte.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Marche in Italy, Maria Pia Castelli Stella Flora is a white.
437 other whites from Italy form the cohort it is ranked inside. 372 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 382 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 Maria Pia Castelli Stella Flora 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 White · Italie (438 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 372.
