Red · Toscana · Italy
Arceno Valadorna Toscana
Scored from 733 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 merlot-based Tuscan blend that reviewers describe as full-bodied and fruit-forward, with black cherry, plum, and cassis layered against smoky oak, chocolate, coffee, and a touch of cigar tobacco and exotic spice. The palate is powerful yet smooth and well-balanced, with firm tannins and a long, lingering finish.
Synthesized from 733Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Excepcional wine, dark berries and spicy notes on the nose. The palate shows heavy tannins with a long aftertaste. Strongly recommended if you can find a bottle!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Arceno Valadorna Toscana is an Italian red from Toscana.
The calibrated figure is built from 733 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 744 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 946 other reds from Italy form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Arceno Valadorna 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 · 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 733.
