Red · Chianti Classico · Italy
Ricasoli Castello di Brolio Gran Selezione Chianti Classico
Scored from 3,269 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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Tasting profile
A powerful yet smooth Chianti Classico showing dark fruit, dried fruit, bitter almond and tobacco on the nose, with a complex, elegant palate marked by fine acidity and well-balanced tannins through a long finish. Reviewers consistently call it outstanding and flavorful, pairing especially well with rich meat dishes.
Synthesized from 3,269Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Esse e "O" Chianti... Foi o Barao Ricasoli que definiu o padrao da denominacao. Quando acharam o Brasil eles ja produziam vinho la ha quase 400 anos!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ricasoli Castello di Brolio Gran Selezione Chianti Classico is Sangiovese grown in Chianti Classico, bottled as a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $59.99, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 947 Italian reds. The calibrated figure is built from 3,269 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,321 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 Ricasoli Castello di Brolio Gran Selezione Chianti Classico 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 3,269.
