Red · Chianti Classico · Italia
Mazzei Chianti Classico Riserva Ser Lapo
Scored from 5,740 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italia (235 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Darker than other Sangiovese wines, maybe due to additional 10% Merlot. Named after Ser Lapo Mazzei, an illustrious ancestor considered to be the father of Chianti Classico dating back to 1398.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Dark cherry red, a nose of concentrated black berries, tobacco and coffee, meaty, very ample and seamless on the palate, with noble structure and integrated tannins, already well balanced; strong and elegant.
From Chianti Classico in Italy, Mazzei Chianti Classico Riserva Ser Lapo is a red. It blends Sangiovese and Merlot. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $20.90.
234 other reds from Italy form the cohort it is ranked inside. 5,740 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 5,879 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 Mazzei Chianti Classico Riserva Ser Lapo 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 · Italia (235 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 5,740.
