Red · Barbaresco · Italia
Pio Cesare Barbaresco
Scored from 2,578 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italia (235 wines).
Find this wine: view on Vivino · compare prices on Wine-Searcher
Tasting profile
A full-bodied, complex Barbaresco with an old-world character - earthy and subtle, layered with deep roasted black and red fruit, oak, coffee, cocoa, and raisin notes. Smooth yet structured with firm tannins and a long, bright finish.
Synthesized from 2,578Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Um Barolo equilibrado, encorpado, aroma de madeira e cor típica da uva, tons amarelados. Supera a safra de 2004. Recomendo muito”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Elegance and velvety, with ripe and spicy fruit. Strong tannins, but elegant. Good structure and concentration. Very long life.
Pio Cesare Barbaresco is a red from Barbaresco, Italy, made from Nebbiolo. At $74.95 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 2,578 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,622 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 235 Italian reds.
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 Pio Cesare Barbaresco 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 · Italia (235 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 2,578.
