Red · Barbera d'Alba · Italy
Pertinace Barbera D'Alba
Scored from 1,415 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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What reviewers say
“Clear and limpid light ruby robe with significant, mellow legs and coffee and strawberry on the nose. The first taste delivers medium-high acidity with tart cherry and vegetable notes with a hint of fish sauce and plum. The acidity profile softens as the wine breathes. We paired it with homemade pizza with prosciutto and garlic fermented in honey and it brought forward pepper notes and a hint of bitterness. Also paired with roast chicken, which brought spicy notes. Definitely worth trying.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Barbera d'Alba in Italy, Pertinace Barbera D'Alba is a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $21.55, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 946 other reds from Italy, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 1,415 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,466 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 Pertinace Barbera D'Alba 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 1,415.
