Fortified · Marsala · Italy
Marco de Bartoli Marsala Superiore Riserva
Scored from 248 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Italy (123 wines).
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Tasting profile
A complex, elegant Marsala with a nose of rancio, chocolate, light caramel, dried fruits, fresh almonds, and dark spice. The palate is warm, round, and deeply textured, carrying bright acidity and a noble bitter finish that lingers like an old Port.
Synthesized from 248Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Credo che sia la vera espressione del Marsala, tutte le espressioni tipiche di questo vino sono presenti al naso e al palato, molto caldo, rotondo”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Marco de Bartoli Marsala Superiore Riserva is a fortified wine from Marsala, Italy.
248 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 252 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 122 other fortified wines from Italy, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Marco de Bartoli Marsala Superiore 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 · Italy (123 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 248.
Cohort: Fortified · Italy
