Red · Valpolicella · Italie
Dal Forno Romano Valpolicella Superiore Monte Lodoletta
Scored from 3,602 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italie (153 wines).
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Tasting profile
A powerful, intensely dry red that reviewers describe as exploding on the palate, with the kind of concentration and structure that rewards patient decanting or further cellaring. Repeatedly called one of the finest Italian wines tasters have encountered, it balances raw force with finesse in a way drinkers find singular.
Synthesized from 3,602Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Thought I had made a mistake - but this beauty just needs time to open. Left it open down in the cellar and came back after going out for dinner and WOW.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This wine offers hints of blueberry, blackberry, cherry and chocolate which emerge gradually as the wine breathes. The potent tannins, which give structure to this product, are in perfect symbiosis with the velvety aromas of sweet spices and jam which envelop the palate and excite the senses.
Dal Forno Romano Valpolicella Superiore Monte Lodoletta is a red from Valpolicella, Italy. At $143 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band. It is made from Corvina.
3,602 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 3,691 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 152 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 Dal Forno Romano Valpolicella Superiore Monte Lodoletta 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 · Italie (153 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 3,602.
