Red · Terre Siciliane · Italy
Purato Nero d'Avola
Scored from 1,631 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
“A deep plum hue, crystallian clear. Vibrant nose, very fruit forward, ripe with cherry, blackberry, faint cinnamon & licorice. Smooth and even, mid level acidity. More cherry, plum, very nice. Finishes tighter but not crushingly so. Tannins are more velvet than leather, although the 14% ABV leaves a nice warm echo that lingers with a peppery kick. Great bang for the buck. Drank surprisingly easy and paired nicely with heavy hors d'oeuvres and light conversation. Would recommend & buy again.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Packed with red berry fruit flavours, it is ideal with red meat and tomato based pasta sauces.
Purato Nero d'Avola is an Italian red from Terre Siciliane. The grape is Nero D Avola. At $16.95 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 947 Italian reds. The calibrated figure is built from 1,631 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,698 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 Purato Nero d'Avola 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 1,631.
