Red · Barolo · Italy
Sandrone Barolo Aleste
Scored from 489 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 powerful, intensely tannic Barolo showing dark berry and cherry fruit alongside prunes, roses, and violet, layered with licorice, leather, tar, spice, and a touch of caramel and smoke. Reviewers highlight its mineral-driven core, full-bodied palate, and impressive balance through a long, lingering finish.
Synthesized from 489Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Smell starts with fruits and flowers than evolved into licorice. Almost smells like an old cabinet. Strong leather smell coming in after letting it sit for a while.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Sandrone Barolo Aleste is an Italian red from Barolo. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $103, which puts the bottle in the $60–120 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 946 other reds from Italy, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 489 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 494 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 Sandrone Barolo Aleste 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 489.
