Fortified · Marsala · Italien
Florio VR0308 Marsala Vergine Riserva
Scored from 9 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Italien (14 wines).
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Tasting profile
A deep golden, oxidative Marsala with aged character leaning toward Madeira, showing citrus, yellow flowers, fermented grain, walnut and tobacco on a dry, saline, structured palate with fine tannin and a long, persistent finish. Rich and elegant overall, though the briny edge softens with extended aging.
Synthesized from 9Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Indescribably rich, full and perfect in any sense. A must in a wine lover‘s life!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Florio VR0308 Marsala Vergine Riserva is an Italian fortified wine from Marsala.
13 other fortified wines from Italy form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 9 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 9 reviewers with at least two ratings 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 Florio VR0308 Marsala Vergine Riserva 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 · Italien (14 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 9.
Cohort: Fortified · Italien
