Red · Barolo · Italien
Parusso Barolo Bussia
Scored from 1,281 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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Tasting profile
An aromatic Barolo led by rose, violet, and wood, with a distinctive cinnamon note on the nose and palate and lifted fruit that reviewers find elegant and vivacious. Lighter in style yet intense and classically acidic, it ages gracefully, staying youthful and persistent through a long, memorable finish.
Synthesized from 1,281Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Himmelarsch und Bohnenstange! Das nen ich ein Erlebnis. Einfach ein (nicht ganz so günstiger) Hammer Wein bei dem die fruchtnoten sehr zur Geltung kommen und einfach Lust auf mehr machen.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This wine is ruby red, deep garnet. A multitude of lovely and attractive essences, rose petals, fine red fruit, balsamic, spiced, raspberry and blueberry notes.
Parusso Barolo Bussia is a red from Barolo, Italy, made from Nebbiolo. At $145 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,281 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,313 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 Parusso Barolo Bussia 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 1,281.
