Red · Salento · Italien
Menhir Pietra (Primitivo - Susumaniello)
Scored from 231 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italien (289 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Minimalist bottle and a popular Apulian blend of Primitivo and Susumanielo, the latter being an ancient grape, a Puglia exclusive, with hard hitting plum aroma. This grape likes scorching heat and it sure gets it in these quarters. Prunes - and ripe dark sweet cherry from Primitivo. High sugar leads to high alcohol, 15% is warming and bordering on dessert taste. Chocolate cake. Oreo cookies. Cola nut not unlike Californian Sonoma valley. Sharp lacy tannins and green apple (Granny Smith) acidity.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
May be labelled 'Primitivo de Manduria', 'Salice Salentino', 'Puglia' or 'Salento'.
From Salento in Italy, Menhir Pietra (Primitivo - Susumaniello) is a red.
The calibrated figure is built from 231 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 241 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 288 other reds 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 Menhir Pietra (Primitivo - Susumaniello) 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 · Italien (289 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 231.
