Red · Barolo · Italy
Oddero Barolo Rocche di Castiglione
Scored from 384 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italy (947 wines).
Find this wine: view on Vivino · compare prices on Wine-Searcher
Tasting profile
A powerful yet elegant Barolo with a ruby-almandine color and an intense nose of licorice, dark cherry, rose, spice, and vanilla, leading to a rich, full-bodied palate with smooth tannins and earthy tobacco notes. Fresh and balanced with a remarkably long, persistent finish.
Synthesized from 384Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“I seem to always think a slightly chilled Nebbiolo is my best ever but this smooth yet full bodied red is as close to perfection as I could wish for.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ruby-red color with pale garnet tinges, balsamic aromas, notes of liquorice and chocolate accompanied by a pleasant mix of small red fruits. Soft and enveloping tannins.
Oddero Barolo Rocche di Castiglione is a red from Barolo, Italy, made from Nebbiolo.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 947 Italian reds. The calibrated figure is built from 384 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 389 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 Oddero Barolo Rocche di Castiglione 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 384.
