Red · Toscana · Italia
Riecine La Gioia Toscana
Scored from 841 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
“Drank our last 3 bottles with Osso Buco for Christmas. This wine had been great joy. Still drinking outstanding 17 years later.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Garnet red robe. Ample and very fine wine with notes of black fruits (blackberry and blackcurrant). Subtle spices greatly supported by velvety and rounded tannins.
Riecine La Gioia Toscana is Sangiovese grown in Toscana, bottled as a red. It sits in the $60–120 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $62.90.
The calibrated figure is built from 841 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 861 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 234 other reds from Italy, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Riecine La Gioia Toscana 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 841.
