Fortified · Marsala · Italy
Cantine Pellegrino Old John Marsala Superiore Riserva Ambra Semisecco
Scored from 71 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Italy (123 wines).
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Tasting profile
An amber, intensely aromatic Marsala showing peach, apricot, raisin, fig, date, caramel, honey and tobacco notes over a touch of oak. Full-bodied, velvety and warm, balanced between sweetness and medium acidity, with soft tannins and a long, harmonious finish that makes it a near-perfect after-dinner pour.
Synthesized from 71Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Un liquore intenso ma gentile al palato. Dolce ma non troppo. Non si percepisce l'alcool. Praticamente perfetto per una degustazione o per dopo pasto. Davvero un'esperienza unica”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Marsala in Italy, Cantine Pellegrino Old John Marsala Superiore Riserva Ambra Semisecco is a fortified wine.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 123 Italian fortified wines. 71 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 72 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 Cantine Pellegrino Old John Marsala Superiore Riserva Ambra Semisecco 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 Fortified · Italy (123 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 71.
Cohort: Fortified · Italy
