Red · Brunello di Montalcino · Italy
Fattoria dei Barbi Brunello di Montalcino
Scored from 8,518 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
“Hacía tiempo que no teníamos ocasión de probar un buen Brunello, y qué mejor que un reencuentro entre amigos en otras latitudes para retomar las buenas costumbres. No es el más elegante, pero sí un valor seguro, el que encontramos en la tienda local.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A lively rich ruby announces an equally appealing complexity in the bouquet, which has the classic essences of red berries, complemented by delicate nuances of oak and liquorice. On the palate this wine is warm and ample; showing a well integrated balance of tannins and acidity, a great structure and long, persistent finish.
Fattoria dei Barbi Brunello di Montalcino is Sangiovese grown in Brunello di Montalcino, bottled as a red. At $68.25 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 8,518 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 8,772 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 946 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 Fattoria dei Barbi Brunello di Montalcino 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 8,518.
