Red · Chianti Classico · Italy
Ruffino Riserva Ducale Oro Chianti Classico (Gran Selezione Gold)
Scored from 3,734 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
“Vintage 2018. Blended with majority of Sangiovese and some Merlot & Colorino. Grapes were grown on sunny hillside made of galestro soil in Toscana. Pale garnet appearance. Medium+ intensity at nose; ripe strawberry, raspberry, red cherry & fig, also blooming rose.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The wine is ruby red with garnet hues. It has an intense impact with powerful notes of cherry, plum and violet opens a bouquet that then fades into neat aromas of tobacco, chocolate, cinnamon and spicy hints of black pepper. Great complexity in the overall bouquet, neat expressions of the authentic Sangiovese and Chianti Classico aromas. Full-bodied, very powerful in its fruity notes, with elegant tannins perfectly supported by a good acidity.
Ruffino Riserva Ducale Oro Chianti Classico (Gran Selezione Gold) is an Italian red made from Sangiovese. It is bottled in Chianti Classico. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $39.99.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 947 Italian reds. 3,734 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 3,841 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 Ruffino Riserva Ducale Oro Chianti Classico (Gran Selezione Gold) 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 3,734.
