Red · Terre Siciliane · Italia
Barone Montalto Collezione di Famiglia Merlot Terre Siciliane
Scored from 787 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italia (235 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Los vinos sicilianos siempre sorprenden, un color oscuro diría casi negro de este Merlot, algunas notas violáceas, en nariz frutos negros, ciruelas, moras, los 12 meses en barrica francesa casi pasan desapercibidos, en boca sus alc. 13.5 % vol. llenan la boca, se perciben los mismos frutos negros, ligera vainilla, lo acompañamos con galletas de maíz untadas con un delicioso foie gras y queso crema con alcachofa y tocino. ¡excelente! saludos #winelovers #pisco #merlot #piscolovers”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep red almost black with purple hues . The nose develops aromas of plums and blackberries with hints of spice . The taste is full and the tannins are not lacking while remaining discrete and round . Excellent persistence and balance
From Terre Siciliane in Italy, Barone Montalto Collezione di Famiglia Merlot Terre Siciliane is a red.
The calibrated figure is built from 787 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 850 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 234 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 Barone Montalto Collezione di Famiglia Merlot Terre Siciliane 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 · Italia (235 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 787.
