Red · Valpolicella · Italy
Duca del Frassino Valpolicella Superiore
Scored from 219 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italy (947 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Tasting date: January, 2015. My first experience with valpolicella wines. Mellow cherry nose. Palate mimics the nose with some additional, appealing bitterness. Lacks tannin (as it should be according to the style), fruit focused. Good first impression, I'll pay attention to this varieties and region. (8.8 pts)”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has a ruby red color and intense aromas of berries and cherries, a proper balance, good structure, elegant tannins.
Duca del Frassino Valpolicella Superiore is an Italian red from Valpolicella. The blend is Rondinella, Molinara and Corvina.
The calibrated figure is built from 219 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 224 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 947 Italian reds.
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 Duca del Frassino Valpolicella Superiore 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 · Italy (947 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 219.
