Red · Valtellina Superiore · Italy
ARPEPE Sassella Ultimi Raggi
Scored from 343 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 structured, elegant Valtellina red showing fruit-forward cherry compote, violet, and spice aromatics, with fine, well-balanced tannins and a soft palate. Reviewers highlight its depth, intensity, and notably long persistence, calling out remarkable longevity and a true expression of Chiavennasca.
Synthesized from 343Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Rubi com maior intensidade, aromas destacados de cereja em compota, violeta e especiarias. Taninos finos, expressivo e com longa persistência em boca.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Intense ruby red. Persistent bouquet, fruity, strawberry, raspberry, cherry and sweet spices. Complex, intense, dry and slightly tannic taste.
From Valtellina Superiore in Italy, ARPEPE Sassella Ultimi Raggi is a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $133, which puts the bottle in the $120-and-up band. It is made from Nebbiolo.
343 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 350 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 947 Italian reds.
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 ARPEPE Sassella Ultimi Raggi 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 343.
