Red · Vino d'Italia · Italy
San Marzano Cinquanta Collezione
Scored from 11,731 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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Tasting profile
A full-bodied 50/50 Primitivo-Negroamaro blend showing dark ruby color with violet hints and powerful aromas of black fruit compote, plum, cherry, blackcurrant, vanilla, chocolate, and French oak. Silky tannins, higher alcohol around 14.5%, and a persistent finish make it rich yet approachable, with reviewers calling it phenomenal and unforgettable.
Synthesized from 11,731Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Simplesmente incrível. Marcante e leve ao mesmo tempo. Frutado na medida. Experiência inesquecível.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ruby red color with purple reflections; intense and complex bouquet with fruity notes of prune and red jam and spicy scent of vanilla and licorice. Intense on the palate, full-bodied and soft with a long aftertaste. Best served with Red meat, game, savory firs courses.
San Marzano Cinquanta Collezione is an Italian red from Vino d'Italia. The grape is Negroamaro.
The calibrated figure is built from 11,731 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 12,158 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 946 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 San Marzano Cinquanta Collezione 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 11,731.
