Dessert · Marsala · Italy
Marco de Bartoli Vecchio Samperi Perpetuo Quarantennale
Scored from 293 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Dessert · Italy (161 wines).
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Tasting profile
A complex, sherry-like Marsala with an enveloping nose of almond, chestnut honey, candied citrus, dried apricot and fig, opening to a warm, savory palate marked by walnut, zabaione and a buttery finish. Bright acidity keeps it fresh, with remarkable persistence and elegance.
Synthesized from 293Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Elegantissimo marsala (perpetuo), sapido elegante. Non il solito passito, prugna, mandorla i sentori secondari. Note di burro sul finire.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Marco de Bartoli Vecchio Samperi Perpetuo Quarantennale is an Italian dessert wine from Marsala.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 161 Italian dessert wines. The calibrated figure is built from 293 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 297 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Vecchio Samperi Perpetuo Quarantennale 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 Dessert · Italy (161 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 293.
Cohort: Dessert · Italy
