Red · Salento · Italia
San Marzano Il Pumo Primitivo
Scored from 7,575 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
“A decent Italian Primitivo we enjoyed drinking cold tonight at a pizza restaurant in Seville. Unfortunately the wine was better than the ropey burnt pizza that I had to send back.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep ruby red with violet hues; complex aroma, with hints of plum and cherry, spicy with rosemary and vanilla. Full-bodied wine, soft and balanced, easy to drink and pleasant.
San Marzano Il Pumo Primitivo is an Italian red from Salento.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 234 other reds from Italy, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 7,575 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 7,881 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 San Marzano Il Pumo Primitivo 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 7,575.
