Red · Valpolicella · Italy
Allegrini Valpolicella Classico
Scored from 1,656 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
“87 Blend of Corvina, Rondinella and Molinara (65/30/5) from Valpolicella Classico with 3m ageing in SS vats. Med(-) intensity ruby color, cherry rim. Med+ intensity on the nose.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ruby red in colour, with purplish-blue highlights; the nose exhibits fragrant fruit with prominent notes of cherries, echoed by fresher hints of pepper and aromatic herbs. Whilst young it is impressively lively and playful on the palate whereas some two years on it expresses greater delicacy and finesse.
Allegrini Valpolicella Classico is a red from Valpolicella, Italy. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $19.19. It is made from Corvina.
1,656 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 1,697 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 946 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 Allegrini Valpolicella 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 1,656.
