Red · Barbaresco · Italia
Pio Cesare Il Bricco Barbaresco
Scored from 725 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italia (235 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Magnifique barbaresco de 2003 qui a la vigueur d'un vin jeune et la profondeur aromatique d'un vin plus âgé,nez sur la fève de cacao,café ,en les fruits rouge font des merveilles...etc”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Dark ruby, yet all transparent. Very elegant, feminine, seductive nose. Ground almonds, leather, sweet raspberry and red currant reduction, toffee and oriental spice. Sweet intensity on the creamy, rich, powerful palate, with enough freshness to balance. Really long aftertaste where plenty of tannins take over.
From Barbaresco in Italy, Pio Cesare Il Bricco Barbaresco is a red. It is made from Nebbiolo. It sits in the $120-and-up band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $130.
234 other reds from Italy form the cohort it is ranked inside. 725 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 733 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Il Bricco 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 725.
