Red · Barolo · Italy
Marchesi di Barolo Sarmassa Barolo
Scored from 1,299 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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Tasting profile
A powerful, dry Barolo showing leather, tobacco, smoke, and wood alongside plum and wild berry fruit, with a hint of pepper and vanilla. Firm tannins frame a fine, well-balanced structure and a long finish that pairs well with hearty food.
Synthesized from 1,299Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“God eftersmak, men inte så kraftig som jag trodde den skulle vara. Tanniner kvar så kanske skulle vi lagrat den lite till? Lång eftersmak”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Marchesi di Barolo Sarmassa Barolo is an Italian red from Barolo.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 946 other reds from Italy, not against the corpus as a whole. 1,299 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 1,329 reviewers with at least two ratings each 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 Marchesi di Barolo Sarmassa Barolo 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 1,299.
