White · Toscana · Italy
Banfi La Pettegola Vermentino
Scored from 2,847 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Italy (3,194 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Ein sehr reizvoller Vermentino. In der Nase erinnert er fast ein wenig an einen Sauvignon Blanc. Aromen von Zitrusfrüchten und Steinobst, aber auch etwas exotische Früchte wie Maracuja. Zudem nimmt man auch in der Nase mineralische Noten und eine deutliche Frische wahr.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Colour: straw yellow. Nose: very fruity, with hints of apricot, grapefruit, flowers and spices typical of the Mediterranean. Taste: full, enlivened by a strong acidity, that gives freshness and persistence in the end-of-mouth.
From Toscana in Italy, Banfi La Pettegola Vermentino is a white. At $16.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 3,193 other whites from Italy, not against the corpus as a whole. 2,847 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 2,949 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 Banfi La Pettegola Vermentino 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 White · Italy (3,194 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 2,847.
