Red · Umbria · Italia
Falesco Pesano Umbria Merlot
Scored from 940 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
“Far from usual soft, anemic interpretations of this verietal. Fairly dark, restrained, extracted and structured. Nose offers blackberry, dusty earthiness and oak tree. Palate is grainy and tannic with tart cherry flavours and balsamic bitterness. Gets pruny with notes of coffee after time in glass, but remains tight. Needs air and food or more time in bottle. Quite rustic.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Has a very deep colour. The scents are wide, rich, soft and spicy and the aromas are noble, well balanced and harmonious with an extremely long lingering finish.
Falesco Pesano Umbria Merlot is an Italian red from Umbria.
234 other reds from Italy form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 940 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 961 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 Falesco Pesano Umbria Merlot 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 940.
