Red · Chianti Classico · Italy
Melini Vigneti La Selvanella Chianti Classico Riserva
Scored from 1,546 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italy (947 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Siamo nella zona di Radda, tra le più vocate del Chianti classico. Riserva della nota docg Toscana per una delle cantine più interessanti del consorzio e devo dire la 2017 risulta davvero in gran forma dopo 6 anni dalla vendemmia.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has a clear, dark, ruby colour with garnet tints, a full, complex bouquet with strong notes of raspberry conserve and of irises and hints of vanilla, cinnamon and leather. The flavour is full, warm and savoury with an elegant and lingering aftertaste of woodland undergrowth and toasted almonds.
Melini Vigneti La Selvanella Chianti Classico Riserva is an Italian red from Chianti Classico. The grape is Sangiovese. At $34.79 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band.
946 other reds from Italy form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,546 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,581 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 Melini Vigneti La Selvanella Chianti Classico Riserva 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 · Italy (947 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 1,546.
