Red · Colli Orientali del Friuli · Italy
Livio Felluga Sossó (Riserva)
Scored from 342 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
“Rating a second bottle of the same 1999 vintage, three months later. This seems to have been kept better first taste dusty tannins, still has cherry, dried fruit, tart. Past its peak but not too far, and opens up beautifull, smooth and velvet. First time opening one of these...”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Appearance: very intense, almost impenetrable ruby red. Nose: broad, elegant, very complex, with sweet notes of morello cherry, ripe plum, wild berries, mingling with intense notes of spice. Palate: mouth filling and well-structured, velvety; sweet, close-knit tannins and acidity in perfect harmony with the wine's richness and concentration; long, lingering, mineral, fruity finish, with wild berry flavours that merge with intense and balsamic spicy notes.
Livio Felluga Sossó (Riserva) is a red from Colli Orientali del Friuli, Italy. It blends Pignolo, Refosco Dal Peduncolo Rosso and Merlot.
342 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 351 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 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 Livio Felluga Sossó (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 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 342.
