Red · Amarone della Valpolicella Classico · Italia
Bussola Amarone della Valpolicella Classico
Scored from 1,954 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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Tasting profile
A powerful, full-bodied Amarone with a firm tannin structure balanced by surprising freshness, showing aromas and flavors of dried fruit, cherry, vanilla, almond, chocolate, herbs, and oak. Intense and concentrated yet smooth, with a long, lingering finish that leans toward port-like richness.
Synthesized from 1,954Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Fantastisk intens oplevelse, som bevæger sig over i portvinsgenren. Imponerende, at en så kraftig vin kan tøjles og fremstå så blød og balanceret. Klasse.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Bussola Amarone della Valpolicella Classico is an Italian red from Amarone della Valpolicella Classico. It sits in the $60–120 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $99.99. The blend is Rondinella, Molinara and Corvina.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 235 Italian reds. The calibrated figure is built from 1,954 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,005 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Bussola Amarone della 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 · 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 1,954.
